1 debhelper (7.2.15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_strip: Also strip OCaml shared libraries. (Stephane Glondu)
5 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
6 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
7 to special case the .svgz extention when compressing svg.
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 15:42:04 -0400
12 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
18 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
25 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
28 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
32 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
36 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
37 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
39 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
40 file support. Closes: #494914
41 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
45 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
48 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
49 parameters. Closes: #527256
50 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
51 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
52 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
56 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
60 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
61 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
62 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
66 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
69 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
70 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
71 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
75 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
78 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
79 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
81 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
82 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
83 by triggers). Closes: #521181
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
87 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
91 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
95 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
97 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
98 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
99 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
100 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
101 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
106 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
112 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
115 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
116 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
117 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
118 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
119 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
121 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
122 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
123 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
124 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
125 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
126 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
130 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
133 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
134 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
135 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
136 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
137 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
139 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
143 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
145 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
149 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
151 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
152 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
153 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
154 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
155 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
156 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
157 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
158 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
159 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
160 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
161 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
165 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
167 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
168 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
170 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
171 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
172 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
173 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
175 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
176 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
180 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
182 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
183 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
184 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
185 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
186 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
187 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
188 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
190 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
191 that uses them. Affected options are:
192 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
193 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
194 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
195 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
196 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
197 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
198 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
199 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
200 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
201 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
202 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
203 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
207 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
214 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
220 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
222 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
223 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
225 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
226 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
227 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
228 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
229 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
231 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
233 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
234 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
235 rules (see bug #509756).
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
239 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
242 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
245 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
246 * Typo. Closes: #493062
247 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
248 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
252 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
255 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
256 empty files. Closes: #490937
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
260 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
266 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
273 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
276 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
277 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
278 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
279 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
284 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
286 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
287 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
288 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
289 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
293 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
296 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
297 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
298 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
299 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
300 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
304 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
311 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
313 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
314 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
315 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
316 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
317 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
318 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
319 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
320 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
321 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
322 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
326 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
329 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
330 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
331 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
332 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
334 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
335 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
336 breaking backwards compatability.
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
340 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
343 message in perl 5.10.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
347 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
353 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Convert copyright file to new format.
356 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
360 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
363 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
367 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
370 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
371 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
372 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
373 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
374 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
375 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
376 logging by dh_listpackages.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
380 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
383 run and there are no packages of that type.
384 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
385 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
386 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
387 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
389 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
390 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
394 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
396 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
397 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
398 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
402 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
405 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
406 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
408 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
409 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
410 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
411 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
412 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
413 planned but not yet implemented.)
414 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
415 if the Makefile has such a target.
416 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
417 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
418 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
419 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
420 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
421 but not yet implemented.)
422 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
423 recommended default, especially when using dh.
424 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
425 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
426 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
428 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
430 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
431 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
433 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
434 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
435 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
440 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
443 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
444 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
448 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
450 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
451 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
452 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
456 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
462 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
468 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
471 just those installed by the program.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
475 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
478 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
479 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
483 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
486 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
487 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
488 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
489 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
493 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
496 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
497 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
501 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
504 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
505 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
509 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
512 with policy. Closes: #461392
513 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
514 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
515 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
516 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
517 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
521 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
524 Closes: #460340, #460351
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
528 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
531 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
532 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
533 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
534 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
538 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
541 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
542 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
543 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
544 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
545 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
546 package build directory won't work.
547 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
548 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
549 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
550 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
551 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
552 mode. Closes: #459426
553 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
558 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
561 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
565 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
569 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
570 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
571 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
572 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
573 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
574 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
578 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
580 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
581 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
582 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
583 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
584 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
588 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
591 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
592 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
593 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
594 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
595 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
599 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
602 debian/package.triggers files.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
606 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
609 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
613 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
616 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
617 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
618 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
619 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
624 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
627 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
634 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
635 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
637 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
642 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
646 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
647 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
648 * Typo. Closes: #441272
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
659 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
666 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
669 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
671 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
672 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
673 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
675 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
676 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
677 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
681 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
684 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
685 * Update urls to web page.
686 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
688 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
689 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
693 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
696 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
697 - typo in alternatives call
698 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
700 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
701 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
705 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
708 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
713 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
719 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
725 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
728 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
730 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
731 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
732 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
733 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
734 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
735 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
736 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
737 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
738 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
739 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
740 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
744 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
747 package install. Closes: #415717
748 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
749 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
750 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
751 script and then remove the python files.
752 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
753 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
754 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
755 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
756 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
757 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
758 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
759 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
760 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
761 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
762 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
763 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
764 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
768 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Correct typo in french translation
774 * Typo. Closes: #400571
775 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
777 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
779 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
780 Closes: #406921, #381940
781 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
783 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
784 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
785 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
786 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
787 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
788 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
789 specified). Closes: #381851
790 * Misc minor changes.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
794 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
801 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
802 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
806 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
812 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
813 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
816 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
817 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
819 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
820 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
821 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
822 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
826 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
829 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
832 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
836 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
842 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
848 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
849 a difficult situation.
850 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
851 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
852 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
853 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
854 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
855 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
856 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
857 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
858 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
859 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
863 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Non-maintainer upload.
866 * Update of dh_python
867 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
868 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
870 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
871 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
872 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
873 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
874 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
876 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
878 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Non-maintainer upload.
881 * Update of dh_python
882 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
883 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
884 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
885 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
886 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
887 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
888 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
889 specific python version. Closes: #373853
890 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
891 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
893 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
894 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
895 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
896 the not too-distant future).
897 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
898 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
899 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
900 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
901 thus made the build fail.
903 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
905 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Non-maintainer upload.
908 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
910 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
912 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
915 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
916 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
917 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
918 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
919 package. Closes: #301424
920 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
921 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
922 fonts). Closes: #372686
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
926 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
932 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
933 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
934 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
935 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
936 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
937 above, but already depends on that.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
941 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
944 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
945 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
946 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
947 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
948 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
952 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
958 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
964 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
965 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
969 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
972 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
976 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
980 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
981 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
982 new version (0.24.1).
983 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
984 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
987 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
988 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
989 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
990 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
991 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
992 new directory on their own.
993 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
994 * Fix broken directory removal code.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
998 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1001 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1002 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1003 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1004 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1008 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1011 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1012 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1013 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1014 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1015 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1019 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1025 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1029 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1030 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1034 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1035 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1039 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1041 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1042 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1044 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1045 ignored. Closes: #337664
1047 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1058 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1063 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1064 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1065 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1066 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1067 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1068 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1069 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1073 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1076 version. Closes: #350607
1077 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1078 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1079 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1080 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1084 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1087 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1088 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1089 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1100 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1109 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1116 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1117 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1118 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1119 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1120 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1121 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1125 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1128 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1129 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1137 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1141 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1144 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1148 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1151 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1152 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1153 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1154 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1155 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1156 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1164 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1165 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1166 link. Closes: #346405
1167 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1169 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1170 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1171 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1172 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1173 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1174 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1175 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1179 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1192 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1195 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1199 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1202 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1207 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1211 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1212 installed. Closes: #342033
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1216 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1219 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1220 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1221 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1226 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1232 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1238 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1242 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1243 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1244 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1248 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1251 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1256 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1263 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1269 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1272 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1273 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1274 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1275 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1276 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1277 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1278 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1280 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1284 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1287 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1288 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1292 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1295 in standard man dirs.
1296 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1300 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1306 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1309 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1314 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1321 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1328 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1331 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1332 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1339 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1340 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1341 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1343 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1345 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1360 mode. Closes: #324161
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1367 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1368 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1369 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1370 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1375 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1378 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1379 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1380 is necesary for sanity.
1381 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1382 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1387 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1389 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1390 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1397 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1410 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1411 released, so use at your own risk.
1412 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1413 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1415 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1416 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1417 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1418 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1419 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1420 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1421 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1422 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1423 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1424 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1425 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1426 including twice per config file line now..
1427 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1428 and simplfy the rules file.
1429 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1430 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1431 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1433 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1434 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1441 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1445 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1448 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1455 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1462 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1463 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1464 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1465 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1466 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1467 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1474 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1475 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1476 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1481 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1484 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1485 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1490 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1493 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1494 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1495 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1500 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1503 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1504 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1505 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1509 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1515 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1522 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1525 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1526 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1527 unknown. Closes: #282924
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1531 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1538 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Spanish man page updates.
1541 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1552 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1555 * dh_desktop: reindent
1556 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1557 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1561 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1567 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1569 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1575 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1579 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1582 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1583 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1587 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1593 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1599 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1606 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1609 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1613 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1616 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1617 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1618 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1619 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1620 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1621 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1623 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1624 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1625 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1626 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1627 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1628 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1629 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1630 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1631 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1632 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1633 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1634 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1635 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1636 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1637 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1638 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1652 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1656 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1659 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1663 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1666 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1670 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1673 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1677 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1683 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1689 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1698 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1699 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1700 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1707 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1711 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1714 but occasionally right and necessary.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1721 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1722 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1723 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1724 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1725 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1732 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1734 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1735 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1736 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1737 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1738 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1739 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1740 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1741 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1742 postinst scripts for udebs.
1743 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1747 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1750 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1752 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1753 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1757 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1780 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1784 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1787 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1794 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1797 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1798 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1802 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1808 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1811 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1815 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1818 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1819 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1820 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1822 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1824 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1825 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1826 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1830 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1833 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1841 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1842 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1843 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1848 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1854 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1863 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1864 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1865 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1866 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1867 associated -dbg packages.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1874 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1881 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1888 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1895 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1903 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1910 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1918 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1926 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1927 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1928 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1929 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1930 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1931 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1932 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1933 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1934 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1935 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1942 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1950 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1951 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1958 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1959 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1964 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1967 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1971 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1974 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1981 out section number. Closes: #204731
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1985 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2007 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2008 removal. Closes: #204286
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2015 renaming. Closes: #203548
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2022 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2023 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2039 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2045 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2048 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2049 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2050 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2057 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2058 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2062 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2078 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2086 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2090 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2093 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2095 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2096 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2103 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2108 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2111 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2123 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2130 it break hard links (see #188663).
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2137 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2147 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2151 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2152 debconf-mergetemplates
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2156 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2159 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2163 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2166 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2170 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2173 * Update debhelper(1).
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2177 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2180 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2181 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2182 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2183 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2184 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2188 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2191 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2192 the shell. Closes: #178524
2193 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2197 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2200 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2204 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2207 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2211 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2214 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2215 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2216 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2217 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2225 files from installation.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2232 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2233 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2240 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2247 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2257 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2267 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2268 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2270 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2277 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2278 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2279 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2280 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2287 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2294 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2295 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2303 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2318 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2319 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2320 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2325 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2328 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2329 practice. Closes: #163303
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2333 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2339 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2346 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2349 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2351 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2352 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2353 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2354 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2355 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2359 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2362 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2383 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2388 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2394 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2400 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2406 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2413 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2416 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2417 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2418 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2419 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2440 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2441 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2448 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2449 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2450 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2451 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2452 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2459 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2461 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2469 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2473 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2476 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2477 right thing. Closes: #150644
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Stupid, evil typo.
2484 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2498 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2499 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2513 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2520 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2521 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2529 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2542 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2543 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Removing perl warning message.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2562 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2563 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2564 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2565 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2566 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2567 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2568 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2569 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2589 debconf-mergetemplate.
2590 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2591 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2598 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2599 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2600 dh_install, which ...
2601 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2602 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2603 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2604 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2605 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2606 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2607 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2608 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2609 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2610 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2611 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2612 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2613 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2614 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2615 other minor changes.
2616 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2617 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2618 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2619 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2620 course there's -X ..)
2621 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2622 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2623 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2625 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2626 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2627 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2628 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2629 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2634 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2640 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2643 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2647 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2653 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2659 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2665 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2671 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2674 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2675 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2676 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2677 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2679 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2680 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2684 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2690 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2693 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2697 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2700 upset. Closes: #131322
2702 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2704 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2707 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2708 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2709 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2710 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2711 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2712 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2713 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2714 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2715 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2716 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2717 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2718 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2719 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2720 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2721 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2723 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2727 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2730 - Better indenting of generated code.
2731 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2735 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2739 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2740 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2741 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2742 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2743 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2744 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2745 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2752 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2756 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2759 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2760 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2761 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2762 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2763 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2764 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2765 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2766 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2767 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2768 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2769 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2770 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2771 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2772 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2773 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2778 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2784 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2787 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2788 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2792 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2795 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2796 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2800 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2806 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2809 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2810 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2811 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2812 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2813 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2818 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2824 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2827 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2831 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2834 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2839 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2848 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2852 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2862 Also some indentation fixes.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2866 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2869 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2870 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2871 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2872 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2873 Closes: #106514, #85520
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2877 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2883 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2889 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2895 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2901 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2910 change it in debhelper v4..
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2914 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2923 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2927 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2930 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2934 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2940 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2943 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2944 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2945 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2946 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2947 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2948 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2949 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2950 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2951 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2952 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2953 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2954 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2958 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2961 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2965 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2972 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2975 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2976 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2977 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2978 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2979 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2980 program those options go to. So, for example,
2981 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2982 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2983 something complex. Closes: #89311
2984 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2988 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2991 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2992 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2993 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2997 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3000 through loop. Closes: #98598
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3004 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Missing semi-colon.
3007 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3008 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3012 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3015 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3016 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3017 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3021 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3024 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3025 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3029 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3032 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3036 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3039 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3040 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3044 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3047 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3048 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3049 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3056 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3057 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3058 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3062 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3065 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3069 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3075 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3081 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3087 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3093 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3096 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3100 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3103 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3104 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3105 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3106 followed. Closes: #85483
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3110 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3112 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3113 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3114 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3118 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3121 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3122 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3123 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3124 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3125 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3126 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3127 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3128 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3129 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3130 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3131 Closes: #88464, #77743
3132 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3133 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3134 us to deal with that gracefully.
3135 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3137 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3138 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3139 a while, Closes: #51225
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3143 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3149 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3152 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3156 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3160 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3165 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3168 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3169 don't make packlist files.
3170 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3171 debhelper coding standards.
3172 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3173 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3177 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3180 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3184 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3187 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3188 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3189 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3190 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3191 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3192 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3193 but is mildly deprecated.
3194 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3195 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3196 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3197 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3198 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3199 switching to statoverrides..
3200 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3201 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3202 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3203 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3204 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3205 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3207 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3208 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3209 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3210 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3211 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3212 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3213 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3214 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3215 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3217 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3218 variable names, pod man pages).
3219 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3220 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3221 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3222 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3223 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3224 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3225 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3229 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3242 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3245 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3251 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3252 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3253 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3259 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3260 they were previously ignored.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3266 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3267 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3273 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3274 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3275 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3279 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3281 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3285 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3287 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3288 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3294 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3295 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3296 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3297 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3298 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3299 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3300 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3301 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3302 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3303 it is an obsolete program.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3307 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3309 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3313 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3317 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3319 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3323 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3327 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3329 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * typo: Closes, #78567
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3357 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3360 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3361 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3362 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3363 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3364 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3371 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3376 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3379 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3380 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3381 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3382 backwards-compatability.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3389 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3390 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3391 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3392 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3393 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3394 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3396 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3397 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3398 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3400 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3402 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3403 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3404 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3405 should now be raised to severity important..
3406 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3407 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3411 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3414 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3419 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3425 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3431 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3437 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3444 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3447 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3448 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3449 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3450 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3454 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3460 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3463 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3464 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3465 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3466 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3467 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3468 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3476 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3480 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3486 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3489 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3497 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3498 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3499 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3500 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3508 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3511 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3514 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3515 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3518 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3520 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3521 the TODO entry about it.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3525 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3535 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3536 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3543 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3544 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3545 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3546 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3550 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3566 (this appears to be logal).
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3573 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3574 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3575 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3576 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3580 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3589 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3590 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3591 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3592 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3596 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3605 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3619 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3620 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3621 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3633 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3642 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3643 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3644 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3645 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3646 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3647 notice until v2 is complete.
3648 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3649 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3650 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3651 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3652 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3653 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3655 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3656 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3657 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3658 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3678 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3692 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3693 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3694 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3695 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3700 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3703 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3704 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3705 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3710 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3713 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3714 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3718 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3721 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3728 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3732 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3739 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3742 depend on the build and install targets.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3746 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3749 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3766 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3772 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3775 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3776 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3777 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3778 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3779 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3780 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3782 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3783 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3784 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3785 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3786 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3787 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3788 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3792 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3798 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3807 right place. Closes: #55065
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3821 * Copyright date updates.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3828 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3852 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3867 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3868 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3869 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3870 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3871 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3872 bits until all files have been registered.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_installmanpages:
3879 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3880 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3881 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3882 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3883 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3884 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3885 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3886 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3887 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3888 otherwise change the result at all.
3890 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3891 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3892 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3893 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3894 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3908 act on files that don't exist.
3909 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3910 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3911 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3913 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3914 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3915 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3916 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3932 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3935 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3939 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3942 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3944 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3945 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3946 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3953 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3954 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3955 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3956 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3957 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3958 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3959 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3961 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3963 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3974 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3989 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4005 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4008 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4009 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4010 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4011 I made some changes, though:
4012 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4013 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4014 that is a clear violation of policy.
4015 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4016 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4017 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4018 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4019 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4020 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4021 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4022 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4023 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4025 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4038 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4045 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4046 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4051 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4067 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4068 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4069 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4070 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4071 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4072 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4073 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4087 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4088 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4101 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4108 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4109 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4115 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4124 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4131 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4132 for the dependancies to be generated.
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4139 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4146 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4147 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4148 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4156 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4157 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4173 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4176 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4186 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4189 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4190 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4191 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4192 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4193 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4194 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4195 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4196 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4197 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4198 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4199 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4200 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4207 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4208 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4210 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4211 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4212 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4213 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4214 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4215 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4217 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4218 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4225 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4239 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4244 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4247 for building debhelper.
4248 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4252 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4262 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4269 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4270 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4271 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4272 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4273 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4274 it's always available.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4281 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4282 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4283 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4290 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4291 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4304 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4317 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4318 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4319 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4326 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4334 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4335 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4337 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4338 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4357 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4361 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4364 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4365 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4367 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4374 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4375 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4376 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4380 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4383 things if CDPATH is set.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4396 seems to make sense for the transition.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4403 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4411 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4412 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4419 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4426 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4427 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4428 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4429 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4442 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4443 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4444 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4445 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4446 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4447 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4448 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4449 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4450 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4451 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4456 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4459 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4460 * README: mention doc/v2
4461 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4462 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4466 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4468 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4469 be using this script RSN.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4473 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4476 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4477 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4478 more than 1 init script.
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4482 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4485 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4489 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Changed perl version detection.
4492 * Changed call to find.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4496 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4499 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4501 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4506 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Really include dh_installpam.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4512 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4515 * Wrote man page for same.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4519 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4522 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4523 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4538 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4539 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4540 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4541 x bit was being set!
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4545 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4548 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4549 well. (Closes: 38900)
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4553 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4556 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4557 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4561 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4563 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4567 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4580 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4583 help from Julian Gilbey.
4584 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4585 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4586 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4587 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4588 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4589 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4590 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4595 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4601 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4608 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4623 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4627 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4630 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4634 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4637 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4641 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4647 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4650 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4654 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4660 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4666 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4668 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4669 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4670 may be deleted. (#35845)
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4674 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Various man page enhancements.
4677 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4685 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4686 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4690 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4693 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4694 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4695 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4697 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4698 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4709 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Another very minor typo fix.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4715 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Very minor typo fix.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4721 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4724 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4725 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4729 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4735 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4737 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4738 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4739 variables properly (#34850).
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4743 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4752 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4753 (automatically generated by build process).
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4757 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4759 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4763 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4766 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4767 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4769 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4773 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4776 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * README: minor typo fix.
4784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4786 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4788 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4789 leave it at that. :-)
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4793 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4808 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4809 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4810 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4817 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4821 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4824 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4828 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4830 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4831 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4832 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4833 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4834 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4838 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4841 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4842 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4843 Craig Small for spotting this.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4847 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4850 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4851 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4864 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4868 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4870 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4871 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4872 working on the last version of debhelper.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4879 being made. (#23255)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4883 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4889 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4891 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4892 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4896 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4899 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4900 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4901 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4902 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4909 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4910 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4911 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4912 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4914 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4915 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4917 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4922 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4928 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4937 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4938 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4939 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4940 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4941 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4942 suidregister actually supports it.
4943 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4944 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4948 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4955 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4958 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4959 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4960 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4961 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4962 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4963 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4964 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4968 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4970 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4971 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4975 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4978 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4979 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4980 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4981 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4988 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4990 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4991 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4992 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4993 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4994 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4995 effect, either. (#30118)
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4999 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5005 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5008 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5009 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5022 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5023 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5024 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5025 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5029 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5032 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5033 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5043 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5046 packages, painlessly.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5050 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5056 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5062 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5068 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * The perl conversion is complete.
5072 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5074 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5075 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5076 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5084 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5085 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5086 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5090 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5092 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5093 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5095 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5097 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5098 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5105 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5106 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5110 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5116 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5119 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5120 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5121 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5122 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5123 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5127 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5130 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5131 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5132 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5133 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5137 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5140 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5147 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5148 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5149 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5150 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5151 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5152 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5153 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5154 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5158 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5160 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5167 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5168 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5169 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5177 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5184 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5191 sections of shared libraries.
5192 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5193 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5194 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5195 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5196 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5197 things you don't want them to.
5198 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5199 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5206 shared libraries. (#26414)
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5210 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5212 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5213 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5214 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5215 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5223 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5225 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5226 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5227 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5228 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5229 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5236 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5243 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5244 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5252 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5256 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5259 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5260 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5261 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5262 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5263 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5265 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5266 remove debian/files properly.
5267 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5268 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5269 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5270 * Removed bogus menu file.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5274 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5277 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5284 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5285 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5286 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5287 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5288 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5289 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5293 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5295 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5296 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5297 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5298 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5299 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5303 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5310 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5313 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5314 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5316 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5317 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5318 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5319 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5320 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5321 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5325 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5328 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5329 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5330 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5331 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5332 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5333 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5334 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5335 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5336 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5337 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5338 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5339 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5340 passed any switches.
5341 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5348 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5349 at all for a long while.
5350 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5351 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5352 large chunks in the process.
5353 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5354 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5355 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5360 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5363 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5365 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5370 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5373 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5374 that don't always have the same files in them.
5375 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5376 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5377 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5381 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5385 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5386 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5387 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5388 updating 27 man pages.
5389 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5390 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5391 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5392 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5393 programs act on. (#25247)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5401 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5402 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5403 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5404 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5405 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5406 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5411 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5418 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5425 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5428 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5432 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5438 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5441 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5442 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5443 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5444 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5445 package by accident.
5446 * Is version 1.0 next?
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5450 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5453 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5454 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5458 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5460 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5461 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5462 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5463 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5464 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5465 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5467 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5472 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5474 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5475 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5476 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5480 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5483 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5487 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5490 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5491 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5496 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5502 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5505 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5506 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5511 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5517 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5520 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5521 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5522 past week. Thanks, guys!
5524 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5525 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5526 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5527 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5528 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5529 would do in the same situation.
5530 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5531 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5533 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5535 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5536 permissions changed.
5537 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5538 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5539 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5540 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5541 files are treated identically.
5542 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5543 * Minor man page fixes.
5544 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5545 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5546 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5550 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5553 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5554 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5555 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5556 use -X multiple times, too.
5557 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5558 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5562 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5565 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5566 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5570 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5573 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5577 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5580 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5581 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5582 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5583 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5584 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5585 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5586 shape if you're starting a new package.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5590 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5593 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5597 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5600 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5601 because of missing symlinks.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5605 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5611 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5613 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5614 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5615 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5616 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5617 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5618 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5620 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5621 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5625 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5627 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5628 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5629 to be changed after the fact :-)
5630 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5634 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5636 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5637 no version string after the -V.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5641 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5643 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5644 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5649 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5652 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5656 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5659 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5660 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5661 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5662 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5663 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5664 I always welcome corrections!
5666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5668 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5670 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5674 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5676 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5677 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5678 * Documented this new switch.
5680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5682 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5684 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5685 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5686 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5687 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5688 no packages use the old behavior.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5692 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5695 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5696 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5703 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5707 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5713 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5716 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5720 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5723 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5724 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5725 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5729 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5735 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5738 into the source package by accident.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5742 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5745 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5746 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5747 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5748 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5749 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5750 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5755 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5757 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5759 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5760 inspired to implement some of it.
5761 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5765 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5768 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5772 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5775 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5776 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5780 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5782 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5783 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5784 have done.) (#17598)
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5794 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5800 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5803 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5807 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5809 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5810 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5811 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5815 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5818 argument processor in perl.
5819 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5820 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5821 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5822 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5826 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5828 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5829 type directories. (#16933)
5830 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5831 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5832 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5833 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5834 are supported. (#16935)
5835 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5840 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5843 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5847 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5851 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5852 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5853 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5854 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5855 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5856 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5860 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5863 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5864 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5866 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5867 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5868 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5869 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5870 a given package, or -i or -a.
5871 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5872 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5873 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5874 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5875 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5876 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5877 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5878 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5879 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5881 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5882 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5883 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5887 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5889 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5890 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5891 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5896 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5898 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5899 does not have a section.
5901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5903 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5905 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5906 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5907 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5908 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5912 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * Fixed typo #16215.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5918 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5921 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5922 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5923 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5924 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5925 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5930 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5933 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5934 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5935 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5940 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5952 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5955 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5956 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5957 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5958 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5959 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5960 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5970 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5973 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5980 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5981 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5982 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5986 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5989 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5993 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5995 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6002 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6009 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6013 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6015 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6019 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6021 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6022 postinst, postrm, etc.
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6032 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6035 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6036 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6037 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6038 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6039 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6043 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6045 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6046 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6047 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6054 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6061 installing package files into.
6062 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6071 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6075 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6081 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6084 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6088 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6091 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6092 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6093 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6094 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6098 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6100 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6101 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6102 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6103 multiple binary packages.
6104 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6105 should rebuild them with this version.
6106 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6110 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6113 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6117 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6120 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6124 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6127 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6128 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6129 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6130 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6131 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6132 debian/README.debian.
6133 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6134 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6135 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6136 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6137 in a few situations.)
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6141 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6147 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6153 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6156 * Fixed several man pages.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6160 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6163 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6164 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6168 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6171 is ready for general use.
6172 * Added man pages for all commands.
6173 * Multiple binary package support.
6174 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6175 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6176 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6178 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6179 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6180 auto-installed as parameters.
6181 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6183 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6186 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6187 the package build directory it is to act on.
6188 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6189 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6190 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6194 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6196 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6197 ready to replace debstd.
6199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400