1 debhelper (5.0.62) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:34:39 -0500
8 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
11 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
12 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
13 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
14 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
18 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
21 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
22 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
23 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
24 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
25 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
29 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
32 debian/package.triggers files.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
36 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
39 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
43 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
45 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
46 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
47 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
48 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
49 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
54 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
57 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
61 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
64 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
65 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
67 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
72 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
76 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
77 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
78 * Typo. Closes: #441272
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
82 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
89 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
96 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
99 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
101 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
102 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
103 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
105 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
106 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
107 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
111 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
114 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
115 * Update urls to web page.
116 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
118 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
119 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
123 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
126 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
127 - typo in alternatives call
128 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
130 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
131 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
135 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
138 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
143 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
149 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
155 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
158 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
160 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
161 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
162 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
163 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
164 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
165 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
166 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
167 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
168 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
169 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
170 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
174 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
177 package install. Closes: #415717
178 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
179 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
180 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
181 script and then remove the python files.
182 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
183 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
184 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
185 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
186 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
187 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
188 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
189 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
190 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
191 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
192 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
193 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
194 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
198 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Correct typo in french translation
204 * Typo. Closes: #400571
205 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
207 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
209 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
210 Closes: #406921, #381940
211 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
213 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
214 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
215 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
216 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
217 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
218 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
219 specified). Closes: #381851
220 * Misc minor changes.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
224 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
231 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
232 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
236 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
242 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
243 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
246 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
247 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
249 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
250 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
251 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
252 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
256 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
259 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
262 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
266 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
272 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
278 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
279 a difficult situation.
280 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
281 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
282 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
283 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
284 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
285 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
286 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
287 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
288 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
289 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
293 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Non-maintainer upload.
296 * Update of dh_python
297 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
298 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
300 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
301 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
302 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
303 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
304 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
306 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
308 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Non-maintainer upload.
311 * Update of dh_python
312 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
313 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
314 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
315 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
316 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
317 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
318 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
319 specific python version. Closes: #373853
320 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
321 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
323 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
324 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
325 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
326 the not too-distant future).
327 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
328 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
329 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
330 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
331 thus made the build fail.
333 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
335 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
337 * Non-maintainer upload.
338 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
340 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
342 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
345 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
346 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
347 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
348 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
349 package. Closes: #301424
350 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
351 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
352 fonts). Closes: #372686
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
356 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
362 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
363 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
364 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
365 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
366 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
367 above, but already depends on that.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
371 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
374 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
375 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
376 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
377 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
378 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
382 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
388 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
394 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
395 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
399 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
402 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
406 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
409 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
410 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
411 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
412 new version (0.24.1).
413 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
414 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
417 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
418 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
419 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
420 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
421 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
422 new directory on their own.
423 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
424 * Fix broken directory removal code.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
428 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
431 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
432 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
433 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
434 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
438 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
441 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
442 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
443 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
444 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
445 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
449 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
455 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Typo. Closes: #358904
459 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
460 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
464 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
465 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
469 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
471 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
472 || exit 0 instead of the intended
474 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
475 ignored. Closes: #337664
477 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
482 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
493 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
494 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
495 the dh_installdebconf manpage
496 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
497 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
498 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
499 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
506 version. Closes: #350607
507 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
508 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
509 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
510 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
514 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
517 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
518 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
519 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
523 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
530 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Minor bug fix from last release.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
539 language guessing. Closes: #193221
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
543 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
546 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
547 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
548 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
549 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
550 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
551 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
555 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
558 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
559 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
564 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
567 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
571 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
574 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
578 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
581 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
582 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
583 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
584 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
585 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
586 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
590 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
593 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
594 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
595 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
596 link. Closes: #346405
597 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
600 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
601 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
602 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
603 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
604 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
605 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
609 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
616 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
618 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
622 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
625 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
629 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
632 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
637 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
641 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
642 installed. Closes: #342033
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
646 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
649 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
650 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
651 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
656 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
662 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
668 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
672 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
673 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
674 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
678 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
681 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
686 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
693 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
699 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
701 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
702 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
703 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
704 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
705 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
706 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
707 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
708 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
710 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
714 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
717 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
718 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
722 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
725 in standard man dirs.
726 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
730 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
736 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
739 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
744 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
751 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
758 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
761 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
762 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
766 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
768 * NMU with maintainer approval.
769 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
770 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
771 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
773 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
775 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
781 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
787 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
790 mode. Closes: #324161
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
794 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
797 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
798 behavior change. Closes: #249815
799 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
800 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
805 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
808 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
809 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
810 is necesary for sanity.
811 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
812 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
817 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
819 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
820 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
824 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
827 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
831 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
837 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
840 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
841 released, so use at your own risk.
842 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
843 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
845 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
846 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
847 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
848 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
849 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
850 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
851 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
852 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
853 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
854 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
855 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
856 including twice per config file line now..
857 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
858 and simplfy the rules file.
859 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
860 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
861 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
863 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
864 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
868 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
871 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
875 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
878 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
882 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
884 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
885 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
889 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
892 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
893 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
894 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
895 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
896 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
897 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
901 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
904 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
905 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
906 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
911 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
914 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
915 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
920 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
923 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
924 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
925 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
930 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
933 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
934 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
935 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
939 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
945 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
952 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
955 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
956 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
957 unknown. Closes: #282924
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
961 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
968 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Spanish man page updates.
971 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
976 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
982 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
985 * dh_desktop: reindent
986 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
987 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
991 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
997 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
999 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1003 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1005 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1009 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1012 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1013 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1017 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1023 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1029 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1036 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1039 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1043 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1046 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1047 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1048 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1049 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1050 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1051 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1053 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1054 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1055 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1056 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1057 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1058 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1059 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1060 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1061 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1062 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1063 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1064 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1065 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1066 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1067 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1068 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1072 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1079 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1082 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1086 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1089 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1093 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1096 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1100 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1103 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1107 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1113 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1119 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1125 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1128 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1129 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1130 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1134 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1137 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1141 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1144 but occasionally right and necessary.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1148 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1151 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1152 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1153 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1154 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1155 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1159 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1162 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1164 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1165 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1166 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1167 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1168 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1169 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1170 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1171 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1172 postinst scripts for udebs.
1173 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1177 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1180 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1182 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1183 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1187 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1193 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1200 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1207 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1210 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1214 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1217 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1221 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1224 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1227 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1228 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1232 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1238 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1241 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1245 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1248 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1249 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1250 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1252 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1254 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1255 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1256 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1260 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1263 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1268 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1271 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1272 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1273 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1278 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1284 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1293 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1294 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1295 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1296 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1297 associated -dbg packages.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1301 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1304 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1308 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1311 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1315 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1318 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1322 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1325 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1330 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1333 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1337 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1340 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1345 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1348 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1352 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1356 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1357 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1358 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1359 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1360 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1361 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1362 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1363 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1364 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1365 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1369 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1372 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1377 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1380 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1381 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1385 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1388 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1389 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1394 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1397 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1401 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1404 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1408 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1411 out section number. Closes: #204731
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1415 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1422 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1428 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1437 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1438 removal. Closes: #204286
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1442 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1445 renaming. Closes: #203548
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1449 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1452 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1453 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1457 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1469 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1475 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1478 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1479 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1480 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1484 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1487 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1488 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1492 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1498 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1505 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1507 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1508 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1513 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1516 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1523 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1525 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1526 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1533 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1538 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1541 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1545 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1553 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1560 it break hard links (see #188663).
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1564 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1567 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1571 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1577 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1581 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1582 debconf-mergetemplates
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1586 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1589 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1593 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1596 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1603 * Update debhelper(1).
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1610 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1611 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1612 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1613 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1614 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1618 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1621 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1622 the shell. Closes: #178524
1623 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1627 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1630 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1634 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1637 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1644 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1645 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1646 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1647 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1652 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1655 files from installation.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1659 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1662 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1663 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1667 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1670 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1674 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1677 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1697 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1698 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1700 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1704 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1707 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1708 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1709 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1710 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1714 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1717 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1721 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1724 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1725 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1733 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1738 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1748 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1749 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1750 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1758 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1759 practice. Closes: #163303
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1769 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1776 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1779 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1781 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1782 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1783 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1784 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1785 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1789 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1792 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1797 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1803 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1810 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1813 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1830 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1846 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1847 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1848 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1849 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1870 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1871 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1878 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1879 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1880 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1881 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1882 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1889 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1891 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1896 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1899 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1903 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1906 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1907 right thing. Closes: #150644
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Stupid, evil typo.
1914 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1925 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1928 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1929 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1943 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1950 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1951 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1956 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1959 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1972 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1973 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Removing perl warning message.
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1989 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1992 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1993 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1994 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1995 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1996 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1997 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1998 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1999 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2003 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2016 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2019 debconf-mergetemplate.
2020 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2021 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2028 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2029 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2030 dh_install, which ...
2031 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2032 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2033 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2034 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2035 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2036 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2037 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2038 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2039 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2040 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2041 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2042 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2043 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2044 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2045 other minor changes.
2046 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2047 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2048 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2049 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2050 course there's -X ..)
2051 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2052 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2053 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2055 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2056 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2057 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2058 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2059 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2064 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2070 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2073 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2077 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2083 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2089 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2095 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2101 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2104 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2105 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2106 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2107 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2109 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2110 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2114 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2120 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2123 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2127 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2130 upset. Closes: #131322
2132 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2134 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2137 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2138 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2139 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2140 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2141 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2142 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2143 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2144 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2145 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2146 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2147 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2148 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2149 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2150 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2151 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2153 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2157 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2160 - Better indenting of generated code.
2161 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2165 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2169 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2170 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2171 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2172 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2173 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2174 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2175 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2179 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2182 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2186 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2189 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2190 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2191 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2192 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2193 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2194 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2195 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2196 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2197 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2198 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2199 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2200 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2201 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2202 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2203 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2208 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2214 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2217 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2218 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2222 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2225 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2226 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2230 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2236 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2239 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2240 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2241 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2242 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2243 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2248 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2254 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2257 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2261 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2264 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2269 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2275 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2278 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2282 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2288 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2292 Also some indentation fixes.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2296 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2299 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2300 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2301 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2302 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2303 Closes: #106514, #85520
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2307 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2313 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2319 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2325 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2331 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2337 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2340 change it in debhelper v4..
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2344 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2350 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2353 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2357 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2360 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2364 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2370 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2373 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2374 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2375 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2376 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2377 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2378 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2379 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2380 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2381 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2382 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2383 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2384 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2388 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2391 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2395 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2402 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2405 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2406 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2407 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2408 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2409 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2410 program those options go to. So, for example,
2411 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2412 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2413 something complex. Closes: #89311
2414 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2418 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2421 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2422 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2423 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2427 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2430 through loop. Closes: #98598
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2434 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Missing semi-colon.
2437 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2438 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2442 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2445 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2446 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2447 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2451 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2454 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2455 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2459 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2462 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2466 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2469 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2470 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2474 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2477 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2478 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2479 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2483 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2486 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2487 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2488 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2492 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2495 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2499 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2505 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2511 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2517 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2523 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2526 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2530 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2533 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2534 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2535 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2536 followed. Closes: #85483
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2540 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2542 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2543 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2544 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2548 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2551 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2552 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2553 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2554 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2555 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2556 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2557 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2558 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2559 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2560 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2561 Closes: #88464, #77743
2562 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2563 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2564 us to deal with that gracefully.
2565 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2567 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2568 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2569 a while, Closes: #51225
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2573 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2579 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2582 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2586 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2590 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2595 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2598 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2599 don't make packlist files.
2600 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2601 debhelper coding standards.
2602 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2603 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2607 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2610 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2614 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2617 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2618 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2619 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2620 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2621 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2622 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2623 but is mildly deprecated.
2624 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2625 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2626 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2627 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2628 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2629 switching to statoverrides..
2630 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2631 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2632 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2633 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2634 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2635 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2637 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2638 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2639 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2640 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2641 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2642 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2643 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2644 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2645 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2647 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2648 variable names, pod man pages).
2649 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2650 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2651 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2652 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2653 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2654 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2655 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2659 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2665 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2672 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2675 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2679 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2681 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2682 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2683 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2687 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2689 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2690 they were previously ignored.
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2694 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2696 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2697 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2701 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2703 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2704 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2705 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2709 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2711 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2715 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2717 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2718 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2722 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2724 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2725 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2726 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2727 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2728 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2729 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2730 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2731 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2732 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2733 it is an obsolete program.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2737 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2739 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2743 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2747 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2749 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2753 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2755 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2757 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2759 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2763 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2769 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * typo: Closes, #78567
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2775 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2781 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2790 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2791 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2792 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2793 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2794 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2798 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2801 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2806 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2809 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2810 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2811 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2812 backwards-compatability.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2816 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2819 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2820 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2821 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2822 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2823 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2824 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2826 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2827 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2828 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2830 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2832 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2833 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2834 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2835 should now be raised to severity important..
2836 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2837 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2841 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2844 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2849 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2855 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2861 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2867 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2874 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2877 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2878 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2879 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2880 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2884 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2890 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2893 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2894 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2895 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2896 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2897 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2898 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2906 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2910 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2916 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2919 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2924 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2927 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2928 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2929 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2930 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2934 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2938 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2941 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2944 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2945 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2948 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2950 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2951 the TODO entry about it.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2955 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2962 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2965 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2966 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2970 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2973 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2974 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2975 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2976 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2980 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2986 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2993 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2996 (this appears to be logal).
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3000 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3003 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3004 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3005 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3006 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3010 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3016 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3019 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3020 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3021 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3022 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3026 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3032 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3035 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3046 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3049 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3050 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3051 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3056 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3063 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3069 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3072 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3073 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3074 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3075 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3076 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3077 notice until v2 is complete.
3078 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3079 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3080 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3081 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3082 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3083 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3085 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3086 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3087 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3088 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3092 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3105 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3108 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3112 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3122 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3123 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3124 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3125 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3130 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3133 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3134 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3135 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3140 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3143 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3144 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3151 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3155 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3158 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3162 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3169 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3172 depend on the build and install targets.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3176 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3179 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3183 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3190 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3196 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3202 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3205 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3206 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3207 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3208 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3209 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3210 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3212 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3213 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3214 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3215 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3216 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3217 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3218 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3222 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3228 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3237 right place. Closes: #55065
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3248 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3251 * Copyright date updates.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3255 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3258 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3276 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3297 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3298 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3299 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3300 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3301 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3302 bits until all files have been registered.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3306 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_installmanpages:
3309 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3310 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3311 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3312 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3313 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3314 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3315 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3316 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3317 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3318 otherwise change the result at all.
3320 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3321 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3322 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3323 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3324 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3329 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3335 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3338 act on files that don't exist.
3339 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3340 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3341 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3343 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3344 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3345 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3346 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3350 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3356 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3365 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3372 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3374 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3375 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3376 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3380 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3383 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3384 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3385 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3386 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3387 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3388 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3389 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3391 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3393 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3416 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3419 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3423 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3438 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3439 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3440 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3441 I made some changes, though:
3442 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3443 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3444 that is a clear violation of policy.
3445 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3446 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3447 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3448 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3449 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3450 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3451 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3452 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3453 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3455 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3459 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3468 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3472 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3475 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3476 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3481 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3497 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3498 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3499 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3500 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3501 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3502 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3503 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3517 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3518 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3522 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3531 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3535 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3538 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3539 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3543 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3545 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3550 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3554 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3558 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3561 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3562 for the dependancies to be generated.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3566 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3569 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3573 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3576 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3577 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3578 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3583 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3586 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3587 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3597 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3603 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3606 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3619 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3620 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3621 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3622 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3623 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3624 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3625 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3626 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3627 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3628 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3629 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3630 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3637 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3638 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3640 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3641 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3642 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3643 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3644 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3645 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3647 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3648 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3652 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3655 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3659 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3669 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3674 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3677 for building debhelper.
3678 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3682 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3692 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3699 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3700 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3701 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3702 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3703 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3704 it's always available.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3711 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3712 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3713 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3717 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3720 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3721 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3725 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3731 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3734 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3738 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3747 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3748 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3749 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3753 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3756 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3764 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3765 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3767 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3768 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3778 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3787 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3794 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3795 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3797 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3804 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3805 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3806 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3813 things if CDPATH is set.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3826 seems to make sense for the transition.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3833 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3838 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3841 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3842 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3849 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3856 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3857 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3858 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3859 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3863 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3869 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3872 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3873 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3874 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3875 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3876 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3877 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3878 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3879 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3880 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3881 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3886 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3889 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3890 * README: mention doc/v2
3891 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3892 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3896 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3898 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3899 be using this script RSN.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3903 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3906 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3907 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3908 more than 1 init script.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3912 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3915 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3919 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * Changed perl version detection.
3922 * Changed call to find.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3926 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3929 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3931 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3936 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Really include dh_installpam.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3942 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3945 * Wrote man page for same.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3949 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3952 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3953 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3958 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3965 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3968 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3969 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3970 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3971 x bit was being set!
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3975 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3978 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3979 well. (Closes: 38900)
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3983 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3986 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3987 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3991 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3997 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4004 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4010 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4013 help from Julian Gilbey.
4014 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4015 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4016 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4017 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4018 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4019 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4020 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4025 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4038 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4044 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4050 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4053 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4057 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4060 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4064 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4067 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4071 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4080 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4084 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4090 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4099 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4100 may be deleted. (#35845)
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4104 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Various man page enhancements.
4107 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4112 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4115 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4116 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4120 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4123 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4124 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4125 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4127 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4128 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4133 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4139 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Another very minor typo fix.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4145 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Very minor typo fix.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4151 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4154 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4155 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4159 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4165 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4168 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4169 variables properly (#34850).
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4173 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4179 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4182 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4183 (automatically generated by build process).
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4187 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4189 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4193 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4196 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4197 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4199 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4203 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4206 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4210 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * README: minor typo fix.
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4219 leave it at that. :-)
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4223 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4229 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4235 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4238 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4239 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4240 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4244 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4246 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4247 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4251 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4253 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4254 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4258 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4261 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4262 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4263 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4264 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4268 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4271 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4272 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4273 Craig Small for spotting this.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4277 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4280 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4281 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4285 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4291 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4294 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4298 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4300 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4301 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4302 working on the last version of debhelper.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4306 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4309 being made. (#23255)
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4313 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4319 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4322 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4326 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4329 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4330 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4331 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4332 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4336 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4339 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4340 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4341 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4342 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4344 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4345 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4347 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4352 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4358 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4364 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4367 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4368 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4369 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4370 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4371 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4372 suidregister actually supports it.
4373 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4374 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4378 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4385 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4388 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4389 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4390 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4391 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4392 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4393 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4394 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4398 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4400 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4401 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4405 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4408 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4409 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4410 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4411 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4415 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4417 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4418 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4420 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4421 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4422 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4423 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4424 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4425 effect, either. (#30118)
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4429 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4435 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4438 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4439 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4443 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4449 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4452 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4453 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4454 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4455 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4459 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4462 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4463 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4476 packages, painlessly.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4480 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4486 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4498 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * The perl conversion is complete.
4502 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4504 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4505 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4506 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4514 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4515 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4516 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4520 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4522 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4523 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4525 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4527 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4528 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4532 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4535 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4536 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4540 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4549 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4550 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4551 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4552 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4553 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4557 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4560 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4561 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4562 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4563 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4570 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4577 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4578 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4579 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4580 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4581 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4582 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4583 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4584 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4597 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4598 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4599 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4607 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4614 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4618 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4621 sections of shared libraries.
4622 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4623 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4624 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4625 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4626 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4627 things you don't want them to.
4628 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4629 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4633 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4636 shared libraries. (#26414)
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4640 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4642 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4643 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4644 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4645 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4649 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4651 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4653 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4655 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4656 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4657 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4658 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4659 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4666 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4673 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4674 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4679 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4682 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4689 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4690 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4691 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4692 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4693 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4695 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4696 remove debian/files properly.
4697 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4698 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4699 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4700 * Removed bogus menu file.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4704 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4707 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4711 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4714 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4715 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4716 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4717 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4718 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4719 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4726 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4727 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4728 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4729 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4733 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4740 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4743 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4744 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4746 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4747 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4748 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4749 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4750 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4751 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4758 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4759 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4760 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4761 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4762 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4763 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4764 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4765 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4766 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4767 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4768 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4769 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4770 passed any switches.
4771 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4775 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4777 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4778 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4779 at all for a long while.
4780 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4781 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4782 large chunks in the process.
4783 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4784 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4785 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4790 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4793 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4795 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4803 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4804 that don't always have the same files in them.
4805 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4806 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4807 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4811 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4815 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4816 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4817 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4818 updating 27 man pages.
4819 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4820 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4821 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4822 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4823 programs act on. (#25247)
4825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4827 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4831 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4832 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4833 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4834 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4835 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4836 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4841 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4848 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4855 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4858 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4862 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4868 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4871 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4872 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4873 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4874 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4875 package by accident.
4876 * Is version 1.0 next?
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4880 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4883 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4884 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4888 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4891 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4892 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4893 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4894 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4895 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4897 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4902 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4905 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4906 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4910 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4913 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4917 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4920 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4921 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4926 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4932 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4934 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4935 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4936 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4941 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4947 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4950 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4951 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4952 past week. Thanks, guys!
4954 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4955 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4956 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4957 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4958 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4959 would do in the same situation.
4960 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4961 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4963 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4965 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4966 permissions changed.
4967 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4968 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4969 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4970 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4971 files are treated identically.
4972 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4973 * Minor man page fixes.
4974 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4975 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4976 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4980 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4983 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4984 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4985 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4986 use -X multiple times, too.
4987 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4988 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4992 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4995 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4996 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5000 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5003 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5007 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5010 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5011 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5012 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5013 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5014 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5015 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5016 shape if you're starting a new package.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5020 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5023 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5027 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5030 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5031 because of missing symlinks.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5035 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5041 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5044 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5045 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5046 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5047 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5048 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5050 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5051 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5055 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5057 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5058 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5059 to be changed after the fact :-)
5060 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5064 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5067 no version string after the -V.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5071 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5073 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5074 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5079 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5081 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5082 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5086 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5089 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5090 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5091 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5092 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5093 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5094 I always welcome corrections!
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5098 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5104 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5107 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5108 * Documented this new switch.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5112 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5115 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5116 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5117 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5118 no packages use the old behavior.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5122 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5125 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5126 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5130 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5133 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5137 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5143 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5146 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5150 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5153 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5154 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5155 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5159 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5165 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5168 into the source package by accident.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5172 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5175 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5176 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5177 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5178 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5179 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5180 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5185 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5189 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5190 inspired to implement some of it.
5191 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5195 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5198 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5202 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5205 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5206 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5210 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5212 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5213 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5214 have done.) (#17598)
5216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5218 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5220 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5224 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5226 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5230 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5233 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5237 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5240 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5241 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5245 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5248 argument processor in perl.
5249 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5250 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5251 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5252 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5256 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5259 type directories. (#16933)
5260 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5261 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5262 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5263 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5264 are supported. (#16935)
5265 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5270 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5273 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5277 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5281 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5282 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5283 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5284 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5285 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5286 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5290 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5292 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5293 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5294 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5296 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5297 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5298 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5299 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5300 a given package, or -i or -a.
5301 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5302 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5303 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5304 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5305 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5306 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5307 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5308 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5309 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5311 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5312 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5313 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5317 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5320 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5321 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5326 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5329 does not have a section.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5333 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5336 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5337 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5338 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5342 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * Fixed typo #16215.
5346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5348 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5350 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5351 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5352 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5353 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5354 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5355 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5360 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5362 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5363 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5364 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5365 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5370 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5372 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5376 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5382 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5385 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5386 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5387 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5388 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5389 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5390 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5394 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5400 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5403 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5407 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5410 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5411 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5412 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5416 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5419 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5423 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5429 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5432 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5436 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5439 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5443 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5449 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5451 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5452 postinst, postrm, etc.
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5456 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5458 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5465 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5466 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5467 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5468 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5469 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5473 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5476 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5477 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5481 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5484 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5488 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5491 installing package files into.
5492 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5497 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5501 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5505 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5511 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5513 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5514 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5518 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5521 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5522 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5523 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5524 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5528 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5530 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5531 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5532 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5533 multiple binary packages.
5534 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5535 should rebuild them with this version.
5536 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5540 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5543 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5547 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5550 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5554 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5557 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5558 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5559 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5560 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5561 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5562 debian/README.debian.
5563 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5564 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5565 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5566 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5567 in a few situations.)
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5571 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5577 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5583 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5586 * Fixed several man pages.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5590 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5593 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5594 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5598 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5601 is ready for general use.
5602 * Added man pages for all commands.
5603 * Multiple binary package support.
5604 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5605 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5606 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5608 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5609 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5610 auto-installed as parameters.
5611 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5613 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5616 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5617 the package build directory it is to act on.
5618 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5619 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5620 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5624 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5626 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5627 ready to replace debstd.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400