1 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
4 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
8 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
11 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
15 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
18 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
20 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
21 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
22 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
26 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
29 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
30 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
31 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
35 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
38 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
39 warning or deprecation message.
40 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
41 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
42 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
43 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
44 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
45 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
46 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
47 Closes: #534639, #357434
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
51 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
57 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
60 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
61 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
62 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
63 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
65 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
66 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
67 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
71 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
77 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
84 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
87 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
91 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
95 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
96 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
98 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
99 file support. Closes: #494914
100 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
104 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
107 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
108 parameters. Closes: #527256
109 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
110 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
111 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
115 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
119 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
120 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
121 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
125 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
127 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
128 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
129 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
130 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
134 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
137 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
138 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
140 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
141 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
142 by triggers). Closes: #521181
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
146 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
150 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
154 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
157 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
158 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
159 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
160 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
165 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
171 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
174 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
175 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
176 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
177 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
178 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
180 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
181 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
182 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
183 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
184 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
185 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
189 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
192 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
193 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
194 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
195 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
196 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
198 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
202 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
204 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
208 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
210 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
211 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
212 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
213 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
214 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
215 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
216 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
217 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
218 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
219 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
220 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
224 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
226 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
227 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
229 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
230 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
231 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
232 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
234 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
235 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
239 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
241 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
242 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
243 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
244 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
245 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
246 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
247 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
249 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
250 that uses them. Affected options are:
251 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
252 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
253 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
254 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
255 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
256 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
257 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
258 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
259 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
260 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
261 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
262 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
266 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
273 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
279 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
281 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
282 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
284 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
285 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
286 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
287 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
288 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
290 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
292 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
293 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
294 rules (see bug #509756).
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
298 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
304 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
305 * Typo. Closes: #493062
306 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
307 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
311 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
314 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
315 empty files. Closes: #490937
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
319 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
321 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
325 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
332 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
335 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
336 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
337 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
338 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
343 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
345 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
346 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
347 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
348 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
352 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
355 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
356 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
357 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
358 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
359 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
363 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
370 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
372 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
373 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
374 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
375 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
376 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
377 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
378 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
379 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
380 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
381 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
385 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
388 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
389 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
390 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
391 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
393 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
394 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
395 breaking backwards compatability.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
399 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
402 message in perl 5.10.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
406 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
412 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Convert copyright file to new format.
415 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
419 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
422 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
426 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
429 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
430 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
431 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
432 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
433 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
434 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
435 logging by dh_listpackages.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
439 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
442 run and there are no packages of that type.
443 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
444 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
445 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
446 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
448 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
449 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
453 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
455 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
456 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
457 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
461 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
464 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
465 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
467 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
468 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
469 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
470 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
471 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
472 planned but not yet implemented.)
473 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
474 if the Makefile has such a target.
475 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
476 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
477 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
478 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
479 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
480 but not yet implemented.)
481 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
482 recommended default, especially when using dh.
483 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
484 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
485 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
487 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
489 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
490 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
492 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
493 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
494 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
499 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
502 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
503 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
507 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
509 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
510 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
511 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
515 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
521 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
527 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
530 just those installed by the program.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
534 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
537 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
538 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
542 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
545 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
546 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
547 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
548 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
552 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
555 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
556 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
560 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
563 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
564 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
568 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
571 with policy. Closes: #461392
572 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
573 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
574 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
575 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
576 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
580 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
583 Closes: #460340, #460351
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
587 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
590 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
591 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
592 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
593 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
597 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
600 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
601 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
602 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
603 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
604 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
605 package build directory won't work.
606 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
607 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
608 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
609 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
610 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
611 mode. Closes: #459426
612 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
617 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
620 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
624 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
628 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
629 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
630 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
631 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
632 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
633 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
637 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
640 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
641 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
642 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
643 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
647 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
649 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
650 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
651 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
652 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
653 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
654 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
658 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
661 debian/package.triggers files.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
665 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
668 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
672 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
675 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
676 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
677 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
678 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
683 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
686 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
690 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
693 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
694 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
696 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
701 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
705 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
706 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
707 * Typo. Closes: #441272
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
711 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
718 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
725 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
728 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
730 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
731 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
732 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
734 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
735 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
736 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
740 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
743 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
744 * Update urls to web page.
745 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
747 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
748 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
752 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
755 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
756 - typo in alternatives call
757 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
759 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
760 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
764 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
767 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
772 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
778 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
784 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
787 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
789 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
790 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
791 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
792 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
793 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
794 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
795 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
796 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
797 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
798 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
799 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
803 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
806 package install. Closes: #415717
807 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
808 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
809 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
810 script and then remove the python files.
811 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
812 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
813 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
814 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
815 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
816 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
817 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
818 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
819 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
820 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
821 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
822 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
823 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
827 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Correct typo in french translation
833 * Typo. Closes: #400571
834 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
836 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
838 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
839 Closes: #406921, #381940
840 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
842 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
843 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
844 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
845 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
846 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
847 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
848 specified). Closes: #381851
849 * Misc minor changes.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
853 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
860 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
861 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
865 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
871 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
872 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
875 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
876 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
878 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
879 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
880 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
881 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
885 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
888 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
891 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
895 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
901 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
907 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
908 a difficult situation.
909 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
910 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
911 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
912 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
913 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
914 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
915 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
916 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
917 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
918 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Non-maintainer upload.
925 * Update of dh_python
926 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
927 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
929 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
930 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
931 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
932 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
933 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
935 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
937 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Non-maintainer upload.
940 * Update of dh_python
941 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
942 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
943 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
944 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
945 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
946 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
947 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
948 specific python version. Closes: #373853
949 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
950 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
952 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
953 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
954 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
955 the not too-distant future).
956 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
957 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
958 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
959 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
960 thus made the build fail.
962 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
964 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Non-maintainer upload.
967 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
969 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
971 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
974 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
975 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
976 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
977 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
978 package. Closes: #301424
979 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
980 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
981 fonts). Closes: #372686
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
985 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
991 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
992 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
993 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
994 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
995 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
996 above, but already depends on that.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1000 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1003 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1004 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1005 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1006 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1007 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1011 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1017 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1023 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1024 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1028 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1031 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1035 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1039 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1040 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1041 new version (0.24.1).
1042 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1043 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1046 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1047 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1048 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1049 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1050 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1051 new directory on their own.
1052 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1053 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1057 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1060 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1061 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1062 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1063 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1067 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1070 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1071 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1072 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1073 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1074 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1078 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1084 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1088 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1089 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1093 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1094 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1098 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1100 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1101 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1103 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1104 ignored. Closes: #337664
1106 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1111 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1122 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1123 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1124 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1125 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1126 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1127 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1128 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1132 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1135 version. Closes: #350607
1136 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1137 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1138 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1139 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1143 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1146 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1147 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1148 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1152 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1159 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1165 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1168 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1172 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1175 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1176 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1177 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1178 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1179 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1180 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1184 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1187 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1188 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1193 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1196 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1200 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1203 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1207 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1210 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1211 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1212 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1213 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1214 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1215 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1219 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1223 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1224 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1225 link. Closes: #346405
1226 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1228 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1229 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1230 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1231 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1232 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1233 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1234 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1238 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1245 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1251 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1254 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1258 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1261 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1266 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1270 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1271 installed. Closes: #342033
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1275 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1278 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1279 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1280 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1285 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1291 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1297 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1301 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1302 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1303 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1307 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1310 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1315 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1322 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1328 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1331 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1332 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1333 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1334 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1335 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1336 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1337 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1339 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1343 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1346 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1347 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1351 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1354 in standard man dirs.
1355 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1365 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1368 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1387 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1390 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1391 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1398 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1399 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1400 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1402 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1404 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1410 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1416 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1419 mode. Closes: #324161
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1426 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1427 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1428 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1429 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1437 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1438 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1439 is necesary for sanity.
1440 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1441 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1446 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1448 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1449 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1456 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1460 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1469 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1470 released, so use at your own risk.
1471 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1472 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1474 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1475 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1476 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1477 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1478 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1479 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1480 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1481 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1482 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1483 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1484 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1485 including twice per config file line now..
1486 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1487 and simplfy the rules file.
1488 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1489 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1490 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1492 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1493 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1500 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1504 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1507 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1514 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1518 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1521 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1522 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1523 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1524 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1525 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1526 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1533 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1534 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1535 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1540 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1543 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1544 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1549 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1552 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1553 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1554 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1559 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1562 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1563 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1564 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1568 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1574 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1584 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1585 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1586 unknown. Closes: #282924
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1590 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1597 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Spanish man page updates.
1600 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1605 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1611 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1614 * dh_desktop: reindent
1615 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1616 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1620 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1628 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1634 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1638 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1641 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1642 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1646 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1668 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1675 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1676 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1677 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1678 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1679 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1680 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1682 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1683 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1684 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1685 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1686 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1687 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1688 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1689 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1690 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1691 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1692 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1693 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1694 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1695 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1696 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1697 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1701 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1708 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1711 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1715 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1718 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1722 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1725 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1729 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1732 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1742 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1748 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1757 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1758 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1759 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1763 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1766 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1770 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1773 but occasionally right and necessary.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1777 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1780 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1781 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1782 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1783 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1784 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1788 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1791 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1793 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1794 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1795 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1796 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1797 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1798 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1799 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1800 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1801 postinst scripts for udebs.
1802 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1806 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1809 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1811 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1812 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1816 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1822 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1829 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1836 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1839 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1846 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1853 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1856 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1857 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1861 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1870 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1874 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1877 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1878 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1879 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1881 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1883 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1884 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1885 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1889 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1892 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1897 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1900 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1901 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1902 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1907 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1913 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1922 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1923 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1924 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1925 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1926 associated -dbg packages.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1933 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1940 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1947 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1954 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1962 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1969 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1977 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1981 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1985 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1986 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1987 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1988 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1989 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1990 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1991 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1992 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1993 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1994 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2001 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2009 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2010 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2017 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2018 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2026 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2033 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2040 out section number. Closes: #204731
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2066 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2067 removal. Closes: #204286
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2074 renaming. Closes: #203548
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2078 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2081 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2082 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2098 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2104 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2107 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2108 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2109 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2113 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2116 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2117 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2134 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2137 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2145 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2152 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2154 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2155 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2162 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2170 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2180 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2182 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2186 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2189 it break hard links (see #188663).
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2193 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2196 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2200 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2206 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2210 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2211 debconf-mergetemplates
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2215 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2218 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2222 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2225 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2232 * Update debhelper(1).
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2239 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2240 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2241 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2242 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2243 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2250 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2251 the shell. Closes: #178524
2252 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2256 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2259 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2266 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2270 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2273 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2274 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2275 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2276 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2284 files from installation.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2291 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2292 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2296 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2299 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2303 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2306 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2310 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2326 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2327 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2329 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2336 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2337 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2338 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2339 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2346 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2353 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2354 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2358 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2362 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2373 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2377 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2378 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2379 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2387 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2388 practice. Closes: #163303
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2392 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2398 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2408 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2410 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2411 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2412 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2413 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2414 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2418 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2421 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2442 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2453 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2465 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2475 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2476 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2477 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2478 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2499 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2500 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2504 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2507 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2508 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2509 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2510 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2511 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2515 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2518 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2520 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2528 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2535 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2536 right thing. Closes: #150644
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Stupid, evil typo.
2543 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2547 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2554 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2557 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2558 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2569 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2572 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2576 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2579 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2580 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2585 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2588 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2601 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2602 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2612 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * Removing perl warning message.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2618 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2621 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2622 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2623 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2624 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2625 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2626 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2627 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2628 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2632 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2648 debconf-mergetemplate.
2649 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2650 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2657 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2658 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2659 dh_install, which ...
2660 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2661 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2662 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2663 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2664 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2665 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2666 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2667 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2668 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2669 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2670 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2671 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2672 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2673 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2674 other minor changes.
2675 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2676 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2677 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2678 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2679 course there's -X ..)
2680 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2681 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2682 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2684 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2685 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2686 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2687 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2688 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2693 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2699 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2702 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2706 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2712 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2718 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2724 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2730 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2733 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2734 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2735 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2736 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2738 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2739 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2743 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2749 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2752 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2756 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2759 upset. Closes: #131322
2761 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2763 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2766 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2767 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2768 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2769 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2770 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2771 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2772 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2773 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2774 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2775 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2776 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2777 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2778 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2779 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2780 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2782 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2786 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2789 - Better indenting of generated code.
2790 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2794 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2798 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2799 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2800 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2801 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2802 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2803 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2804 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2808 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2811 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2815 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2818 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2819 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2820 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2821 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2822 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2823 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2824 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2825 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2826 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2827 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2828 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2829 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2830 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2831 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2832 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2837 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2843 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2846 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2847 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2851 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2854 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2855 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2859 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2865 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2868 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2869 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2870 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2871 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2872 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2877 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2883 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2886 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2890 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2893 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2898 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2904 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2907 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2911 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2917 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2921 Also some indentation fixes.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2925 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2928 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2929 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2930 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2931 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2932 Closes: #106514, #85520
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2936 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2948 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2954 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2966 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2969 change it in debhelper v4..
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2973 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2979 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2982 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2986 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2989 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2993 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2999 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3002 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3003 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3004 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3005 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3006 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3007 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3008 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3009 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3010 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3011 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3012 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3013 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3017 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3020 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3024 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3031 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3034 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3035 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3036 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3037 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3038 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3039 program those options go to. So, for example,
3040 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3041 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3042 something complex. Closes: #89311
3043 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3047 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3050 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3051 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3052 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3056 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3059 through loop. Closes: #98598
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3063 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Missing semi-colon.
3066 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3067 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3071 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3074 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3075 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3076 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3080 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3083 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3084 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3088 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3091 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3095 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3098 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3099 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3103 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3106 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3107 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3108 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3115 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3116 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3117 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3121 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3124 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3128 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3134 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3140 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3146 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3152 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3155 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3159 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3162 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3163 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3164 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3165 followed. Closes: #85483
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3169 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3171 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3172 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3173 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3177 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3180 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3181 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3182 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3183 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3184 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3185 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3186 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3187 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3188 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3189 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3190 Closes: #88464, #77743
3191 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3192 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3193 us to deal with that gracefully.
3194 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3196 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3197 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3198 a while, Closes: #51225
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3202 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3208 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3211 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3215 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3219 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3224 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3227 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3228 don't make packlist files.
3229 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3230 debhelper coding standards.
3231 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3232 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3236 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3239 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3243 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3246 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3247 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3248 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3249 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3250 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3251 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3252 but is mildly deprecated.
3253 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3254 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3255 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3256 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3257 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3258 switching to statoverrides..
3259 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3260 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3261 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3262 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3263 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3264 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3266 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3267 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3268 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3269 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3270 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3271 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3272 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3273 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3274 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3276 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3277 variable names, pod man pages).
3278 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3279 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3280 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3281 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3282 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3283 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3284 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3294 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3301 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3304 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3310 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3311 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3312 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3316 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3318 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3319 they were previously ignored.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3323 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3325 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3326 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3330 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3332 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3333 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3334 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3340 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3344 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3346 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3347 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3353 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3354 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3355 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3356 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3357 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3358 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3359 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3360 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3361 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3362 it is an obsolete program.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3366 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3368 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3372 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3376 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3382 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3386 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3388 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3392 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3398 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * typo: Closes, #78567
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3416 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3419 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3420 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3421 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3422 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3423 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3430 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3435 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3438 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3439 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3440 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3441 backwards-compatability.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3445 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3448 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3449 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3450 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3451 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3452 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3453 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3455 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3456 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3457 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3459 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3461 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3462 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3463 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3464 should now be raised to severity important..
3465 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3466 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3470 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3473 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3478 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3484 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3490 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3496 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3506 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3507 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3508 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3509 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3513 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3519 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3522 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3523 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3524 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3525 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3526 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3527 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3535 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3548 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3553 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3556 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3557 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3558 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3559 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3567 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3570 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3573 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3574 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3577 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3579 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3580 the TODO entry about it.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3591 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3594 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3595 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3602 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3603 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3604 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3605 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3609 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3615 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3625 (this appears to be logal).
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3629 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3632 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3633 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3634 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3635 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3645 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3648 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3649 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3650 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3651 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3661 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3664 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3678 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3679 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3680 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3692 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3698 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3701 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3702 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3703 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3704 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3705 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3706 notice until v2 is complete.
3707 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3708 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3709 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3710 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3711 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3712 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3714 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3715 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3716 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3717 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3721 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3737 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3741 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3748 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3751 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3752 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3753 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3754 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3762 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3763 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3764 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3769 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3772 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3773 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3777 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3780 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3784 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3787 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3798 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3801 depend on the build and install targets.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3805 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3808 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3831 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3834 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3835 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3836 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3837 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3838 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3839 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3841 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3842 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3843 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3844 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3845 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3846 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3847 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3857 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3866 right place. Closes: #55065
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3877 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3880 * Copyright date updates.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3887 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3917 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3923 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3926 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3927 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3928 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3929 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3930 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3931 bits until all files have been registered.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * dh_installmanpages:
3938 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3939 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3940 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3941 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3942 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3943 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3944 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3945 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3946 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3947 otherwise change the result at all.
3949 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3950 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3951 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3952 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3953 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3958 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3964 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3967 act on files that don't exist.
3968 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3969 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3970 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3972 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3973 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3974 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3975 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3991 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3994 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4001 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4003 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4004 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4005 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4009 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4012 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4013 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4014 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4015 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4016 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4017 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4018 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4020 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4022 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4026 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4033 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4039 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4045 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4048 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4064 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4067 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4068 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4069 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4070 I made some changes, though:
4071 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4072 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4073 that is a clear violation of policy.
4074 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4075 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4076 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4077 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4078 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4079 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4080 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4081 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4082 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4084 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4097 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4101 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4104 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4105 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4126 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4127 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4128 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4129 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4130 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4131 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4132 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4136 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4138 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4146 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4147 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4160 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4167 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4168 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4174 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4183 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4190 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4191 for the dependancies to be generated.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4198 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4205 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4206 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4207 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4215 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4216 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4226 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4235 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4239 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4241 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4245 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4248 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4249 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4250 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4251 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4252 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4253 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4254 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4255 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4256 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4257 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4258 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4259 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4266 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4267 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4269 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4270 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4271 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4272 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4273 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4274 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4276 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4277 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4281 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4284 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4288 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4298 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4306 for building debhelper.
4307 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4321 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4328 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4329 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4330 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4331 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4332 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4333 it's always available.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4340 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4341 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4342 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4349 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4350 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4360 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4362 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4363 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4367 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4376 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4377 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4378 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4382 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4384 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4385 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4393 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4394 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4396 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4397 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4413 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4416 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4420 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4423 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4424 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4426 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4433 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4434 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4435 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4439 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4442 things if CDPATH is set.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4455 seems to make sense for the transition.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4462 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4470 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4471 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4475 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4478 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4482 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4484 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4485 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4486 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4487 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4488 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4501 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4502 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4503 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4504 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4505 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4506 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4507 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4508 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4509 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4510 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4515 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4518 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4519 * README: mention doc/v2
4520 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4521 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4527 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4528 be using this script RSN.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4535 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4536 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4537 more than 1 init script.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4541 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4544 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4548 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * Changed perl version detection.
4551 * Changed call to find.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4555 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4557 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4558 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4560 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4565 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Really include dh_installpam.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4571 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4574 * Wrote man page for same.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4578 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4581 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4582 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4587 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4594 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4597 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4598 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4599 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4600 x bit was being set!
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4607 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4608 well. (Closes: 38900)
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4612 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4615 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4616 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4626 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4633 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4639 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4642 help from Julian Gilbey.
4643 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4644 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4645 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4646 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4647 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4648 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4649 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4654 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4656 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4660 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4667 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4673 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4679 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4682 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4689 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4693 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4696 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4706 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4709 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4719 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4725 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4728 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4729 may be deleted. (#35845)
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4733 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * Various man page enhancements.
4736 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4741 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4743 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4744 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4745 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4749 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4752 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4753 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4754 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4756 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4757 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4762 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4768 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Another very minor typo fix.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4774 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Very minor typo fix.
4778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4780 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4782 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4783 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4784 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4788 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4794 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4797 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4798 variables properly (#34850).
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4811 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4812 (automatically generated by build process).
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4816 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4818 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4822 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4824 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4825 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4826 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4828 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4832 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4835 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * README: minor typo fix.
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4848 leave it at that. :-)
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4864 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4866 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4867 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4868 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4869 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4873 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4876 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4880 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4883 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4887 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4890 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4891 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4892 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4893 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4900 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4901 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4902 Craig Small for spotting this.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4906 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4909 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4910 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4920 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4923 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4929 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4930 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4931 working on the last version of debhelper.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4938 being made. (#23255)
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4942 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4948 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4951 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4958 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4959 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4960 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4961 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4965 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4968 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4969 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4970 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4971 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4973 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4974 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4976 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4981 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4987 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4996 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4997 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4998 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4999 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5000 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5001 suidregister actually supports it.
5002 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5003 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5007 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5014 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5017 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5018 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5019 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5020 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5021 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5022 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5023 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5027 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5029 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5030 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5034 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5037 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5038 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5039 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5040 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5047 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5049 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5050 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5051 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5052 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5053 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5054 effect, either. (#30118)
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5064 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5067 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5068 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5072 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5074 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5078 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5081 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5082 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5083 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5084 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5088 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5091 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5092 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5105 packages, painlessly.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5115 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5121 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5127 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * The perl conversion is complete.
5131 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5133 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5134 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5135 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5140 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5143 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5144 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5145 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5152 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5154 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5156 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5157 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5161 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5164 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5165 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5178 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5179 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5180 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5181 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5182 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5189 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5190 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5191 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5192 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5196 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5198 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5199 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5203 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5206 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5207 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5208 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5209 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5210 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5211 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5212 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5213 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5223 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5226 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5227 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5228 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5236 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5243 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5247 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5250 sections of shared libraries.
5251 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5252 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5253 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5254 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5255 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5256 things you don't want them to.
5257 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5258 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5265 shared libraries. (#26414)
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5271 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5272 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5273 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5274 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5278 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5280 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5282 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5284 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5285 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5286 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5287 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5288 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5292 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5295 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5299 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5301 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5302 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5303 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5311 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5315 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5318 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5319 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5320 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5321 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5322 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5324 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5325 remove debian/files properly.
5326 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5327 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5328 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5329 * Removed bogus menu file.
5331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5333 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5335 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5336 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5340 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5343 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5344 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5345 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5346 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5347 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5348 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5355 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5356 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5357 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5358 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5362 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5372 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5373 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5375 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5376 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5377 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5378 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5379 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5380 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5387 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5388 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5389 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5390 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5391 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5392 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5393 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5394 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5395 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5396 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5397 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5398 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5399 passed any switches.
5400 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5407 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5408 at all for a long while.
5409 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5410 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5411 large chunks in the process.
5412 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5413 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5414 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5419 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5422 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5424 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5429 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5432 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5433 that don't always have the same files in them.
5434 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5435 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5436 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5440 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5442 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5444 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5445 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5446 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5447 updating 27 man pages.
5448 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5449 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5450 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5451 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5452 programs act on. (#25247)
5454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5456 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5460 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5461 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5462 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5463 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5464 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5465 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5470 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5477 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5484 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5487 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5491 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5493 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5497 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5500 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5501 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5502 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5503 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5504 package by accident.
5505 * Is version 1.0 next?
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5509 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5512 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5513 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5517 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5519 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5520 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5521 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5522 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5523 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5524 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5526 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5531 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5534 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5535 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5539 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5542 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5546 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5549 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5550 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5555 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5561 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5564 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5565 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5570 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5576 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5579 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5580 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5581 past week. Thanks, guys!
5583 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5584 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5585 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5586 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5587 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5588 would do in the same situation.
5589 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5590 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5592 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5594 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5595 permissions changed.
5596 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5597 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5598 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5599 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5600 files are treated identically.
5601 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5602 * Minor man page fixes.
5603 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5604 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5605 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5609 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5612 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5613 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5614 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5615 use -X multiple times, too.
5616 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5617 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5621 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5624 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5625 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5629 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5632 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5636 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5639 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5640 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5641 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5642 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5643 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5644 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5645 shape if you're starting a new package.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5649 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5652 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5656 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5659 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5660 because of missing symlinks.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5664 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5670 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5673 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5674 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5675 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5676 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5677 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5679 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5680 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5684 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5686 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5687 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5688 to be changed after the fact :-)
5689 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5693 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5695 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5696 no version string after the -V.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5700 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5702 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5703 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5708 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5710 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5711 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5715 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5717 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5718 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5719 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5720 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5721 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5722 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5723 I always welcome corrections!
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5727 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5733 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5736 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5737 * Documented this new switch.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5741 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5744 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5745 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5746 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5747 no packages use the old behavior.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5751 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5754 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5755 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5759 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5762 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5766 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5772 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5774 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5775 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5779 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5781 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5782 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5783 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5784 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5788 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5794 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5797 into the source package by accident.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5801 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5804 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5805 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5806 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5807 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5808 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5809 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5814 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5816 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5818 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5819 inspired to implement some of it.
5820 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5824 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5826 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5827 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5834 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5835 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5839 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5841 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5842 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5843 have done.) (#17598)
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5847 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5853 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5855 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5859 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5861 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5862 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5866 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5868 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5869 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5870 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5874 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5876 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5877 argument processor in perl.
5878 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5879 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5880 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5881 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5885 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5888 type directories. (#16933)
5889 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5890 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5891 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5892 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5893 are supported. (#16935)
5894 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5902 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5906 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5910 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5911 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5912 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5913 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5914 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5915 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5919 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5922 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5923 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5925 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5926 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5927 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5928 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5929 a given package, or -i or -a.
5930 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5931 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5932 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5933 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5934 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5935 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5936 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5937 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5938 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5940 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5941 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5942 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5946 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5948 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5949 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5950 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5955 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5958 does not have a section.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5962 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5965 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5966 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5967 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5971 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Fixed typo #16215.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5977 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5980 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5981 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5982 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5983 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5984 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5989 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5991 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5992 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5993 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5994 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6005 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6011 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6014 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6015 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6016 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6017 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6018 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6019 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6023 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6029 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6031 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6032 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6036 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6039 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6040 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6041 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6045 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6047 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6048 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6052 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6058 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6060 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6061 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6065 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6068 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6072 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6074 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6078 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6080 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6081 postinst, postrm, etc.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6085 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6087 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6091 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6093 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6094 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6095 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6096 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6097 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6098 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6102 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6105 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6106 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6113 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6117 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6119 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6120 installing package files into.
6121 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6126 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6128 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6130 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6140 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6143 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6147 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6149 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6150 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6151 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6152 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6153 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6157 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6159 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6160 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6161 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6162 multiple binary packages.
6163 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6164 should rebuild them with this version.
6165 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6169 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6171 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6172 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6176 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6178 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6179 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6183 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6186 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6187 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6188 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6189 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6190 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6191 debian/README.debian.
6192 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6193 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6194 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6195 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6196 in a few situations.)
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6200 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6206 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6212 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6214 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6215 * Fixed several man pages.
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6219 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6222 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6223 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6227 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6230 is ready for general use.
6231 * Added man pages for all commands.
6232 * Multiple binary package support.
6233 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6234 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6235 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6237 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6238 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6239 auto-installed as parameters.
6240 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6242 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6245 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6246 the package build directory it is to act on.
6247 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6248 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6249 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6253 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6255 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6256 ready to replace debstd.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400