1 debhelper (7.2.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
4 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
5 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
6 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
7 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
9 * Remove rules.simple example, there's no need to use explcit targets
11 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
12 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
13 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
14 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
15 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
16 rules (see bug #509756).
17 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Dec 2008 16:26:36 -0500
21 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
23 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
24 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
26 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
27 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
28 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
29 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
31 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
32 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
36 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
38 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
39 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
40 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
41 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
42 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
43 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
44 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
46 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
47 that uses them. Affected options are:
48 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
49 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
50 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
51 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
52 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
53 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
54 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
55 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
56 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
57 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
58 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
59 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
63 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
66 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
69 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
70 * Typo. Closes: #493062
71 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
72 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
76 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
79 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
80 empty files. Closes: #490937
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
84 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
90 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
97 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
100 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
101 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
102 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
103 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
108 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
110 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
111 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
112 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
113 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
117 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
120 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
121 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
122 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
123 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
124 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
128 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
135 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
137 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
138 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
139 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
140 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
141 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
142 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
143 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
144 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
145 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
146 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
150 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
153 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
154 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
155 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
156 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
158 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
159 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
160 breaking backwards compatability.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
164 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
167 message in perl 5.10.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
171 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
173 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
177 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Convert copyright file to new format.
180 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
184 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
187 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
191 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
194 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
195 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
196 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
197 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
198 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
199 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
200 logging by dh_listpackages.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
204 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
206 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
207 run and there are no packages of that type.
208 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
209 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
210 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
211 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
213 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
214 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
218 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
220 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
221 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
222 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
226 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
229 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
230 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
232 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
233 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
234 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
235 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
236 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
237 planned but not yet implemented.)
238 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
239 if the Makefile has such a target.
240 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
241 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
242 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
243 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
244 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
245 but not yet implemented.)
246 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
247 recommended default, especially when using dh.
248 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
249 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
250 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
252 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
254 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
255 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
257 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
258 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
259 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
264 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
267 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
268 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
272 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
274 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
275 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
276 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
280 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
286 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
292 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
294 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
295 just those installed by the program.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
299 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
302 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
303 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
307 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
310 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
311 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
312 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
313 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
317 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
320 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
321 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
325 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
328 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
329 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
333 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
336 with policy. Closes: #461392
337 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
338 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
339 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
340 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
341 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
345 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
348 Closes: #460340, #460351
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
352 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
355 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
356 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
357 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
358 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
362 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
365 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
366 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
367 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
368 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
369 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
370 package build directory won't work.
371 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
372 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
373 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
374 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
375 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
376 mode. Closes: #459426
377 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
382 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
385 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
389 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
393 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
394 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
395 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
396 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
397 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
398 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
402 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
405 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
406 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
407 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
408 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
412 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
415 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
416 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
417 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
418 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
419 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
423 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
426 debian/package.triggers files.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
430 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
433 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
437 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
440 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
441 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
442 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
443 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
448 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
451 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
455 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
458 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
459 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
461 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
466 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
470 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
471 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
472 * Typo. Closes: #441272
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
476 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
478 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
483 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
490 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
493 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
495 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
496 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
497 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
499 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
500 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
501 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
505 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
508 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
509 * Update urls to web page.
510 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
512 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
513 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
517 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
520 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
521 - typo in alternatives call
522 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
524 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
525 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
529 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
532 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
543 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
549 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
552 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
554 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
555 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
556 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
557 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
558 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
559 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
560 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
561 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
562 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
563 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
564 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
568 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
571 package install. Closes: #415717
572 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
573 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
574 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
575 script and then remove the python files.
576 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
577 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
578 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
579 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
580 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
581 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
582 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
583 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
584 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
585 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
586 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
587 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
588 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
592 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Correct typo in french translation
598 * Typo. Closes: #400571
599 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
601 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
603 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
604 Closes: #406921, #381940
605 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
607 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
608 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
609 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
610 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
611 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
612 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
613 specified). Closes: #381851
614 * Misc minor changes.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
618 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
625 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
626 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
630 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
636 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
637 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
640 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
641 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
643 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
644 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
645 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
646 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
650 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
653 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
656 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
660 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
666 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
672 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
673 a difficult situation.
674 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
675 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
676 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
677 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
678 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
679 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
680 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
681 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
682 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
683 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
687 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Non-maintainer upload.
690 * Update of dh_python
691 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
692 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
694 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
695 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
696 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
697 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
698 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
700 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
702 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Non-maintainer upload.
705 * Update of dh_python
706 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
707 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
708 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
709 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
710 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
711 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
712 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
713 specific python version. Closes: #373853
714 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
715 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
717 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
718 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
719 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
720 the not too-distant future).
721 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
722 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
723 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
724 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
725 thus made the build fail.
727 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
729 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Non-maintainer upload.
732 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
734 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
736 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
739 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
740 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
741 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
742 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
743 package. Closes: #301424
744 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
745 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
746 fonts). Closes: #372686
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
750 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
756 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
757 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
758 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
759 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
760 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
761 above, but already depends on that.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
765 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
768 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
769 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
770 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
771 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
772 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
776 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
782 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
788 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
789 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
793 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
796 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
800 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
804 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
805 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
806 new version (0.24.1).
807 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
808 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
811 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
812 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
813 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
814 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
815 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
816 new directory on their own.
817 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
818 * Fix broken directory removal code.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
822 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
825 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
826 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
827 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
828 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
832 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
835 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
836 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
837 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
838 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
839 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
843 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
849 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Typo. Closes: #358904
853 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
854 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
858 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
859 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
863 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
865 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
866 || exit 0 instead of the intended
868 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
869 ignored. Closes: #337664
871 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
876 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
882 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
887 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
888 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
889 the dh_installdebconf manpage
890 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
891 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
892 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
893 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
897 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
900 version. Closes: #350607
901 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
902 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
903 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
904 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
908 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
911 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
912 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
913 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
917 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
924 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Minor bug fix from last release.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
930 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
933 language guessing. Closes: #193221
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
937 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
940 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
941 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
942 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
943 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
944 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
945 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
949 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
952 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
953 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
958 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
960 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
961 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
965 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
968 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
972 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
975 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
976 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
977 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
978 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
979 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
980 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
984 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
987 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
988 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
989 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
990 link. Closes: #346405
991 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
994 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
995 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
996 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
997 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
998 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
999 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1003 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1010 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1016 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1019 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1023 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1026 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1031 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1035 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1036 installed. Closes: #342033
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1040 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1043 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1044 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1045 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1050 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1056 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1062 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1066 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1067 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1068 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1072 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1075 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1080 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1093 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1096 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1097 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1098 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1099 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1100 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1101 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1102 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1104 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1108 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1111 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1112 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1116 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1119 in standard man dirs.
1120 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1124 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1130 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1133 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1145 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1152 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1155 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1156 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1160 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1163 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1164 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1165 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1167 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1169 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1184 mode. Closes: #324161
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1188 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1191 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1192 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1193 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1194 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1199 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1202 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1203 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1204 is necesary for sanity.
1205 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1206 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1211 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1213 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1214 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1218 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1221 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1225 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1231 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1234 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1235 released, so use at your own risk.
1236 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1237 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1239 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1240 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1241 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1242 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1243 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1244 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1245 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1246 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1247 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1248 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1249 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1250 including twice per config file line now..
1251 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1252 and simplfy the rules file.
1253 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1254 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1255 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1257 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1258 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1262 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1265 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1269 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1272 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1276 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1278 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1279 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1283 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1286 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1287 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1288 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1289 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1290 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1291 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1298 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1299 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1300 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1305 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1308 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1309 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1314 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1317 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1318 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1319 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1324 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1327 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1328 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1329 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1333 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1339 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1346 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1349 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1350 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1351 unknown. Closes: #282924
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1355 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1362 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Spanish man page updates.
1365 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1370 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1379 * dh_desktop: reindent
1380 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1381 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1385 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1391 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1393 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1399 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1403 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1406 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1407 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1411 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1430 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1433 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1440 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1441 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1442 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1443 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1444 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1445 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1447 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1448 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1449 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1450 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1451 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1452 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1453 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1454 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1455 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1456 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1457 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1458 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1459 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1460 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1461 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1462 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1476 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1480 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1483 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1490 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1497 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1501 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1507 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1513 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1519 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1522 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1523 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1524 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1528 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1531 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1538 but occasionally right and necessary.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1542 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1545 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1546 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1547 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1548 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1549 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1553 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1556 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1558 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1559 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1560 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1561 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1562 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1563 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1564 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1565 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1566 postinst scripts for udebs.
1567 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1574 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1576 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1577 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1581 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1587 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1594 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1601 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1604 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1608 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1611 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1615 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1618 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1621 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1622 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1626 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1635 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1642 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1643 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1644 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1646 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1648 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1649 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1650 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1657 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1662 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1665 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1666 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1667 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1672 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1684 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1687 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1688 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1689 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1690 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1691 associated -dbg packages.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1695 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1698 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1705 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1709 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1712 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1719 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1727 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1734 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1742 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1750 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1751 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1752 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1753 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1754 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1755 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1756 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1757 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1758 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1759 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1766 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1771 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1774 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1775 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1779 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1782 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1783 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1791 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1798 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1805 out section number. Closes: #204731
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1831 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1832 removal. Closes: #204286
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1836 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1839 renaming. Closes: #203548
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1846 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1847 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1863 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1869 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1872 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1873 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1874 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1878 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1881 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1882 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1902 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1910 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1917 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1919 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1920 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1924 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1927 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1935 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1939 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1947 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1954 it break hard links (see #188663).
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1961 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1965 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1975 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1976 debconf-mergetemplates
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1980 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1983 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1987 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1990 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1994 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1997 * Update debhelper(1).
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2001 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2004 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2005 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2006 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2007 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2008 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2015 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2016 the shell. Closes: #178524
2017 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2024 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2031 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2038 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2039 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2040 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2041 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2049 files from installation.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2053 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2056 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2057 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2061 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2064 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2071 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2075 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2087 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2091 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2092 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2094 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2098 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2101 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2102 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2103 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2104 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2108 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2111 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2115 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2118 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2119 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2127 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2142 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2143 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2144 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2152 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2153 practice. Closes: #163303
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2157 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2163 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2173 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2175 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2176 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2177 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2178 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2179 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2186 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2207 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2230 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2237 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2240 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2241 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2242 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2243 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2248 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2261 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2264 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2265 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2269 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2272 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2273 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2274 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2275 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2276 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2280 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2283 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2285 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2290 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2293 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2300 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2301 right thing. Closes: #150644
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Stupid, evil typo.
2308 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2319 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2322 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2323 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2334 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2337 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2344 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2345 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2353 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2357 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2363 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2366 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2367 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2377 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Removing perl warning message.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2383 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2386 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2387 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2388 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2389 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2390 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2391 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2392 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2393 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2413 debconf-mergetemplate.
2414 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2415 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2422 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2423 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2424 dh_install, which ...
2425 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2426 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2427 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2428 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2429 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2430 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2431 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2432 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2433 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2434 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2435 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2436 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2437 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2438 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2439 other minor changes.
2440 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2441 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2442 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2443 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2444 course there's -X ..)
2445 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2446 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2447 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2449 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2450 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2451 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2452 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2453 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2458 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2464 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2467 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2471 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2477 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2483 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2489 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2495 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2498 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2499 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2500 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2501 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2503 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2504 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2508 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2514 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2517 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2521 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2524 upset. Closes: #131322
2526 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2528 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2531 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2532 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2533 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2534 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2535 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2536 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2537 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2538 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2539 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2540 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2541 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2542 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2543 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2544 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2545 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2547 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2551 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2554 - Better indenting of generated code.
2555 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2559 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2563 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2564 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2565 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2566 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2567 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2568 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2569 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2573 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2576 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2580 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2583 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2584 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2585 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2586 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2587 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2588 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2589 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2590 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2591 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2592 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2593 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2594 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2595 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2596 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2597 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2602 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2608 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2611 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2612 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2616 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2619 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2620 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2624 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2630 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2633 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2634 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2635 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2636 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2637 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2642 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2648 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2651 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2655 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2658 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2663 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2669 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2672 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2676 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2682 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2686 Also some indentation fixes.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2690 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2693 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2694 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2695 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2696 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2697 Closes: #106514, #85520
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2701 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2707 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2713 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2719 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2725 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2731 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2734 change it in debhelper v4..
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2738 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2744 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2747 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2751 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2754 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2758 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2764 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2767 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2768 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2769 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2770 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2771 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2772 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2773 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2774 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2775 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2776 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2777 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2778 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2782 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2785 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2789 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2796 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2799 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2800 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2801 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2802 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2803 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2804 program those options go to. So, for example,
2805 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2806 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2807 something complex. Closes: #89311
2808 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2812 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2815 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2816 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2817 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2821 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2824 through loop. Closes: #98598
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2828 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Missing semi-colon.
2831 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2832 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2836 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2839 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2840 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2841 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2845 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2848 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2849 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2853 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2856 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2863 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2864 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2868 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2871 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2872 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2873 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2877 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2880 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2881 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2882 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2886 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2889 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2893 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2899 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2905 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2911 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2917 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2920 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2924 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2927 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2928 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2929 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2930 followed. Closes: #85483
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2934 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2936 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2937 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2938 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2942 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2945 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2946 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2947 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2948 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2949 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2950 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2951 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2952 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2953 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2954 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2955 Closes: #88464, #77743
2956 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2957 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2958 us to deal with that gracefully.
2959 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2961 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2962 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2963 a while, Closes: #51225
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2967 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2973 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2976 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2980 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2984 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2989 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2992 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2993 don't make packlist files.
2994 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2995 debhelper coding standards.
2996 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2997 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3001 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3004 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3008 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3011 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3012 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3013 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3014 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3015 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3016 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3017 but is mildly deprecated.
3018 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3019 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3020 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3021 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3022 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3023 switching to statoverrides..
3024 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3025 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3026 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3027 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3028 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3029 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3031 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3032 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3033 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3034 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3035 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3036 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3037 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3038 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3039 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3041 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3042 variable names, pod man pages).
3043 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3044 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3045 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3046 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3047 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3048 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3049 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3053 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3059 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3066 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3069 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3075 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3076 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3077 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3081 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3083 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3084 they were previously ignored.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3088 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3090 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3091 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3095 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3097 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3098 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3099 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3103 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3105 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3109 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3111 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3112 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3116 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3118 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3119 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3120 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3121 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3122 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3123 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3124 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3125 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3126 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3127 it is an obsolete program.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3131 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3133 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3137 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3141 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3143 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3147 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3149 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3151 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3153 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3157 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3163 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * typo: Closes, #78567
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3169 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3175 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3181 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3184 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3185 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3186 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3187 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3188 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3192 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3195 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3200 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3203 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3204 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3205 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3206 backwards-compatability.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3210 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3213 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3214 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3215 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3216 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3217 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3218 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3220 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3221 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3222 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3224 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3226 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3227 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3228 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3229 should now be raised to severity important..
3230 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3231 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3235 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3238 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3255 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3261 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3268 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3271 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3272 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3273 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3274 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3278 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3284 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3287 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3288 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3289 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3290 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3291 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3292 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3297 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3300 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3304 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3313 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3318 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3321 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3322 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3323 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3324 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3328 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3332 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3335 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3338 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3339 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3342 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3344 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3345 the TODO entry about it.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3356 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3359 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3360 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3364 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3367 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3368 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3369 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3370 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3374 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3380 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3387 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3390 (this appears to be logal).
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3394 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3397 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3398 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3399 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3400 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3404 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3410 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3413 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3414 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3415 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3416 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3420 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3426 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3429 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3433 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3443 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3444 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3445 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3450 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3463 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3466 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3467 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3468 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3469 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3470 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3471 notice until v2 is complete.
3472 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3473 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3474 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3475 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3476 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3477 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3479 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3480 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3481 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3482 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3492 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3499 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3502 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3516 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3517 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3518 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3519 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3524 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3527 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3528 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3529 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3534 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3537 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3538 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3542 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3545 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3552 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3566 depend on the build and install targets.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3573 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3584 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3590 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3596 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3599 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3600 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3601 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3602 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3603 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3604 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3606 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3607 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3608 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3609 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3610 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3611 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3612 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3616 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3628 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3631 right place. Closes: #55065
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3642 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3645 * Copyright date updates.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3652 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3663 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3670 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3676 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3682 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3688 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3691 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3692 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3693 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3694 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3695 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3696 bits until all files have been registered.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_installmanpages:
3703 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3704 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3705 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3706 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3707 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3708 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3709 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3710 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3711 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3712 otherwise change the result at all.
3714 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3715 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3716 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3717 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3718 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3723 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3729 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3732 act on files that don't exist.
3733 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3734 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3735 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3737 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3738 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3739 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3740 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3744 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3750 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3759 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3766 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3768 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3769 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3770 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3774 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3777 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3778 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3779 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3780 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3781 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3782 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3783 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3785 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3787 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3798 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3813 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3817 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3832 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3833 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3834 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3835 I made some changes, though:
3836 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3837 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3838 that is a clear violation of policy.
3839 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3840 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3841 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3842 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3843 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3844 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3845 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3846 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3847 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3849 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3862 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3869 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3870 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3875 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3891 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3892 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3893 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3894 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3895 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3896 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3897 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3901 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3911 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3912 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3922 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3925 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3932 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3933 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3937 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3939 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3944 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3948 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3955 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3956 for the dependancies to be generated.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3960 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3963 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3967 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3970 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3971 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3972 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3977 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3980 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3981 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3997 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4000 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4004 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4010 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4013 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4014 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4015 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4016 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4017 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4018 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4019 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4020 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4021 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4022 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4023 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4024 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4031 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4032 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4034 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4035 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4036 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4037 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4038 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4039 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4041 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4042 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4049 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4063 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4068 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4071 for building debhelper.
4072 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4083 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4086 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4093 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4094 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4095 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4096 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4097 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4098 it's always available.
4100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4102 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4104 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4105 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4106 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4107 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4114 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4115 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4125 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4128 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4132 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4138 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4141 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4142 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4143 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4147 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4150 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4158 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4159 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4161 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4162 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4166 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4181 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4188 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4189 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4191 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4195 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4197 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4198 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4199 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4200 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4207 things if CDPATH is set.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4217 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4219 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4220 seems to make sense for the transition.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4224 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4227 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4235 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4236 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4240 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4243 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4250 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4251 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4252 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4253 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4263 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4266 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4267 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4268 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4269 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4270 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4271 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4272 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4273 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4274 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4275 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4280 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4283 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4284 * README: mention doc/v2
4285 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4286 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4290 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4292 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4293 be using this script RSN.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4297 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4300 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4301 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4302 more than 1 init script.
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4306 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4309 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4313 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4315 * Changed perl version detection.
4316 * Changed call to find.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4320 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4323 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4325 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4330 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4332 * Really include dh_installpam.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4336 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4339 * Wrote man page for same.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4343 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4346 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4347 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4352 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4359 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4362 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4363 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4364 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4365 x bit was being set!
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4369 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4372 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4373 well. (Closes: 38900)
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4380 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4381 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4385 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4391 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4398 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4404 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4407 help from Julian Gilbey.
4408 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4409 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4410 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4411 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4412 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4413 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4414 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4419 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4425 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4432 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4438 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4444 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4447 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4451 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4454 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4458 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4461 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4465 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4471 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4474 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4478 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4484 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4490 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4493 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4494 may be deleted. (#35845)
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Various man page enhancements.
4501 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4506 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4509 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4510 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4514 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4516 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4517 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4518 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4519 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4521 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4522 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4527 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4533 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * Another very minor typo fix.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4539 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Very minor typo fix.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4545 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4548 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4549 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4553 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4562 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4563 variables properly (#34850).
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4567 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4573 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4576 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4577 (automatically generated by build process).
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4581 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4583 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4587 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4590 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4591 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4593 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4597 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4600 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4604 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * README: minor typo fix.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4610 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4613 leave it at that. :-)
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4617 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4623 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4629 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4632 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4633 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4634 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4638 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4641 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4645 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4648 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4652 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4655 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4656 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4657 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4658 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4662 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4665 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4666 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4667 Craig Small for spotting this.
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4671 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4674 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4675 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4679 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4688 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4694 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4695 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4696 working on the last version of debhelper.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4703 being made. (#23255)
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4707 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4713 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4716 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4720 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4723 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4724 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4725 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4726 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4733 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4734 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4735 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4736 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4738 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4739 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4741 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4746 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4748 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4758 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4761 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4762 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4763 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4764 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4765 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4766 suidregister actually supports it.
4767 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4768 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4772 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4774 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4779 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4782 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4783 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4784 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4785 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4786 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4787 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4788 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4792 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4794 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4795 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4799 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4802 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4803 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4804 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4805 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4809 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4812 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4814 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4815 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4816 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4817 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4818 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4819 effect, either. (#30118)
4821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4823 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4825 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4829 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4831 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4832 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4833 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4837 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4843 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4846 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4847 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4848 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4849 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4853 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4856 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4857 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4870 packages, painlessly.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4874 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4880 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4886 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4892 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4894 * The perl conversion is complete.
4896 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4898 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4899 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4900 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4908 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4909 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4910 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4917 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4919 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4921 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4922 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4929 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4930 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4934 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4940 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4943 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4944 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4945 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4946 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4947 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4954 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4955 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4956 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4957 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4964 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4971 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4972 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4973 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4974 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4975 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4976 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4977 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4978 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4982 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4988 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4991 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4992 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4993 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5001 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5008 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5012 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5015 sections of shared libraries.
5016 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5017 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5018 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5019 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5020 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5021 things you don't want them to.
5022 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5023 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5030 shared libraries. (#26414)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5036 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5037 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5038 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5039 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5047 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5049 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5050 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5051 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5052 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5053 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5060 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5067 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5068 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5076 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5083 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5084 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5085 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5086 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5087 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5089 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5090 remove debian/files properly.
5091 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5092 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5093 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5094 * Removed bogus menu file.
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5101 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5108 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5109 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5110 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5111 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5112 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5113 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5120 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5121 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5122 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5123 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5137 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5138 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5140 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5141 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5142 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5143 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5144 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5145 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5152 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5153 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5154 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5155 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5156 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5157 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5158 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5159 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5160 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5161 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5162 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5163 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5164 passed any switches.
5165 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5169 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5172 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5173 at all for a long while.
5174 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5175 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5176 large chunks in the process.
5177 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5178 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5179 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5184 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5187 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5189 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5194 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5196 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5197 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5198 that don't always have the same files in them.
5199 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5200 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5201 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5209 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5210 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5211 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5212 updating 27 man pages.
5213 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5214 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5215 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5216 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5217 programs act on. (#25247)
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5221 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5225 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5226 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5227 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5228 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5229 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5230 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5235 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5242 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5244 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5249 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5252 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5256 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5262 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5265 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5266 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5267 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5268 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5269 package by accident.
5270 * Is version 1.0 next?
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5274 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5277 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5278 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5282 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5285 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5286 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5287 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5288 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5289 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5291 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5296 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5299 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5300 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5304 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5307 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5311 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5314 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5315 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5320 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5322 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5326 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5328 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5329 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5330 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5335 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5341 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5344 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5345 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5346 past week. Thanks, guys!
5348 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5349 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5350 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5351 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5352 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5353 would do in the same situation.
5354 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5355 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5357 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5359 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5360 permissions changed.
5361 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5362 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5363 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5364 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5365 files are treated identically.
5366 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5367 * Minor man page fixes.
5368 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5369 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5370 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5374 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5377 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5378 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5379 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5380 use -X multiple times, too.
5381 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5382 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5386 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5389 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5390 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5394 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5397 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5401 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5404 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5405 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5406 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5407 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5408 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5409 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5410 shape if you're starting a new package.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5414 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5417 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5421 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5424 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5425 because of missing symlinks.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5429 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5435 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5438 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5439 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5440 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5441 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5442 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5444 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5445 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5449 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5451 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5452 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5453 to be changed after the fact :-)
5454 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5458 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5460 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5461 no version string after the -V.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5465 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5467 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5468 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5473 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5476 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5480 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5483 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5484 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5485 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5486 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5487 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5488 I always welcome corrections!
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5492 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5498 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5501 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5502 * Documented this new switch.
5504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5506 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5508 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5509 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5510 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5511 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5512 no packages use the old behavior.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5516 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5519 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5520 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5524 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5527 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5531 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5537 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5540 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5544 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5547 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5548 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5549 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5553 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5559 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5562 into the source package by accident.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5566 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5569 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5570 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5571 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5572 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5573 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5574 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5579 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5583 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5584 inspired to implement some of it.
5585 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5589 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5592 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5596 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5599 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5600 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5604 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5607 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5608 have done.) (#17598)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5612 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5618 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5624 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5627 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5631 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5634 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5635 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5642 argument processor in perl.
5643 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5644 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5645 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5646 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5650 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5653 type directories. (#16933)
5654 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5655 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5656 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5657 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5658 are supported. (#16935)
5659 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5664 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5667 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5671 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5675 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5676 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5677 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5678 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5679 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5680 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5684 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5686 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5687 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5688 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5690 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5691 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5692 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5693 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5694 a given package, or -i or -a.
5695 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5696 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5697 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5698 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5699 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5700 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5701 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5702 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5703 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5705 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5706 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5707 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5711 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5714 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5715 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5720 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5723 does not have a section.
5725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5727 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5729 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5730 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5731 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5732 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5736 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Fixed typo #16215.
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5742 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5745 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5746 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5747 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5748 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5749 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5754 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5757 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5758 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5759 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5764 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5770 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5776 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5779 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5780 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5781 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5782 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5783 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5784 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5788 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5794 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5797 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5801 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5803 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5804 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5805 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5806 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5810 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5813 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5817 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5823 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5825 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5826 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5830 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5833 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5837 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5839 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5843 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5846 postinst, postrm, etc.
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5850 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5859 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5860 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5861 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5862 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5863 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5867 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5869 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5870 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5871 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5875 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5877 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5878 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5882 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5884 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5885 installing package files into.
5886 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5891 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5895 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5899 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5905 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5907 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5908 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5912 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5915 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5916 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5917 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5918 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5922 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5924 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5925 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5926 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5927 multiple binary packages.
5928 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5929 should rebuild them with this version.
5930 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5934 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5936 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5937 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5941 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5943 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5944 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5948 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5951 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5952 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5953 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5954 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5955 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5956 debian/README.debian.
5957 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5958 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5959 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5960 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5961 in a few situations.)
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5965 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5971 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5977 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5980 * Fixed several man pages.
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5984 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5987 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5988 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5992 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5995 is ready for general use.
5996 * Added man pages for all commands.
5997 * Multiple binary package support.
5998 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5999 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6000 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6002 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6003 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6004 auto-installed as parameters.
6005 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6007 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6010 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6011 the package build directory it is to act on.
6012 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6013 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6014 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6018 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6020 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6021 ready to replace debstd.
6023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400