1 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
4 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
5 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
6 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
7 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
12 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
14 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
15 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
19 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
22 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
23 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
25 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
30 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
34 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
35 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
36 * Typo. Closes: #441272
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
40 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
42 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
47 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
54 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
57 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
59 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
60 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
61 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
63 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
64 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
65 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
69 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
72 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
73 * Update urls to web page.
74 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
76 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
77 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
81 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
84 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
85 - typo in alternatives call
86 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
88 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
89 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
93 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
96 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
101 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
107 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
113 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
116 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
118 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
119 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
120 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
121 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
122 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
123 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
124 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
125 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
126 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
127 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
128 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
132 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
135 package install. Closes: #415717
136 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
137 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
138 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
139 script and then remove the python files.
140 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
141 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
142 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
143 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
144 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
145 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
146 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
147 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
148 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
149 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
150 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
151 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
152 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
156 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Correct typo in french translation
162 * Typo. Closes: #400571
163 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
165 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
167 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
168 Closes: #406921, #381940
169 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
171 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
172 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
173 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
174 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
175 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
176 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
177 specified). Closes: #381851
178 * Misc minor changes.
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
182 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
189 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
190 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
194 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
200 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
201 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
204 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
205 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
207 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
208 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
209 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
210 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
214 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
217 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
220 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
224 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
230 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
236 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
237 a difficult situation.
238 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
239 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
240 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
241 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
242 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
243 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
244 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
245 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
246 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
247 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
251 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Non-maintainer upload.
254 * Update of dh_python
255 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
256 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
258 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
259 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
260 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
261 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
262 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
264 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
266 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Non-maintainer upload.
269 * Update of dh_python
270 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
271 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
272 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
273 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
274 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
275 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
276 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
277 specific python version. Closes: #373853
278 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
279 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
281 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
282 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
283 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
284 the not too-distant future).
285 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
286 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
287 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
288 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
289 thus made the build fail.
291 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
293 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Non-maintainer upload.
296 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
298 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
300 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
302 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
303 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
304 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
305 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
306 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
307 package. Closes: #301424
308 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
309 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
310 fonts). Closes: #372686
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
314 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
320 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
321 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
322 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
323 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
324 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
325 above, but already depends on that.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
329 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
332 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
333 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
334 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
335 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
336 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
340 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
342 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
346 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
352 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
353 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
357 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
360 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
364 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
368 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
369 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
370 new version (0.24.1).
371 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
372 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
375 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
376 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
377 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
378 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
379 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
380 new directory on their own.
381 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
382 * Fix broken directory removal code.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
386 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
389 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
390 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
391 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
392 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
396 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
399 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
400 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
401 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
402 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
403 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
407 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
413 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
416 * Typo. Closes: #358904
417 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
418 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
422 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
423 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
427 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
429 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
430 || exit 0 instead of the intended
432 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
433 ignored. Closes: #337664
435 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
440 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
446 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
451 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
452 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
453 the dh_installdebconf manpage
454 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
455 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
456 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
457 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
461 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
464 version. Closes: #350607
465 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
466 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
467 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
468 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
472 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
475 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
476 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
477 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
481 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Minor bug fix from last release.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
494 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
497 language guessing. Closes: #193221
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
501 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
504 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
505 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
506 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
507 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
508 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
509 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
513 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
516 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
517 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
522 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
525 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
529 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
532 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
536 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
539 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
540 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
541 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
542 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
543 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
544 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
548 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
551 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
552 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
553 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
554 link. Closes: #346405
555 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
558 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
559 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
560 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
561 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
562 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
563 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
567 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
574 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
576 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
580 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
583 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
587 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
590 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
595 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
599 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
600 installed. Closes: #342033
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
604 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
607 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
608 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
609 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
614 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
620 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
626 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
630 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
631 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
632 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
636 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
639 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
644 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
657 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
659 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
660 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
661 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
662 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
663 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
664 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
665 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
666 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
668 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
672 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
675 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
676 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
680 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
683 in standard man dirs.
684 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
688 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
694 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
697 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
702 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
709 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
716 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
718 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
719 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
720 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
724 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
726 * NMU with maintainer approval.
727 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
728 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
729 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
731 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
733 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
739 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
745 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
747 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
748 mode. Closes: #324161
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
752 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
755 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
756 behavior change. Closes: #249815
757 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
758 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
763 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
766 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
767 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
768 is necesary for sanity.
769 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
770 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
775 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
777 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
778 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
782 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
785 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
789 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
795 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
798 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
799 released, so use at your own risk.
800 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
801 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
803 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
804 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
805 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
806 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
807 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
808 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
809 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
810 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
811 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
812 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
813 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
814 including twice per config file line now..
815 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
816 and simplfy the rules file.
817 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
818 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
819 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
821 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
822 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
826 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
829 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
833 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
836 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
840 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
842 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
843 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
847 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
850 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
851 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
852 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
853 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
854 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
855 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
859 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
862 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
863 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
864 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
869 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
872 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
873 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
878 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
881 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
882 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
883 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
888 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
891 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
892 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
893 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
897 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
903 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
910 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
913 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
914 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
915 unknown. Closes: #282924
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
919 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
926 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Spanish man page updates.
929 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
934 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
940 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
942 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
943 * dh_desktop: reindent
944 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
945 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
949 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
955 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
957 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
961 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
963 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
967 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
970 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
971 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
975 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
977 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
981 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
987 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
994 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
997 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1004 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1005 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1006 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1007 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1008 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1009 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1011 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1012 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1013 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1014 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1015 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1016 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1017 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1018 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1019 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1020 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1021 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1022 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1023 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1024 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1025 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1026 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1030 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1037 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1040 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1044 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1047 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1051 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1054 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1058 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1061 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1065 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1071 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1077 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1083 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1086 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1087 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1088 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1092 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1095 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1099 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1102 but occasionally right and necessary.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1106 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1109 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1110 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1111 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1112 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1113 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1117 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1120 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1122 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1123 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1124 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1125 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1126 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1127 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1128 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1129 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1130 postinst scripts for udebs.
1131 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1135 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1138 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1140 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1141 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1145 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1151 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1158 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1165 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1168 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1172 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1175 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1179 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1182 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1185 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1186 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1190 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1199 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1203 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1206 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1207 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1208 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1210 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1212 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1213 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1214 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1218 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1221 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1226 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1229 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1230 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1231 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1236 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1242 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1251 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1252 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1253 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1254 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1255 associated -dbg packages.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1259 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1262 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1266 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1269 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1276 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1283 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1291 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1295 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1298 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1303 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1306 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1310 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1314 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1315 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1316 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1317 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1318 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1319 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1320 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1321 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1322 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1323 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1327 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1330 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1338 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1339 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1343 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1346 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1347 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1352 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1355 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1359 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1362 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1369 out section number. Closes: #204731
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1373 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1380 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1386 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1392 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1395 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1396 removal. Closes: #204286
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1403 renaming. Closes: #203548
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1407 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1410 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1411 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1415 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1421 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1427 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1433 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1436 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1437 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1438 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1442 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1445 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1446 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1450 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1466 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1471 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1474 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1481 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1483 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1484 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1488 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1491 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1496 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1499 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1511 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1518 it break hard links (see #188663).
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1522 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1525 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1529 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1539 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1540 debconf-mergetemplates
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1544 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1547 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1551 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1554 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1558 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1561 * Update debhelper(1).
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1565 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1568 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1569 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1570 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1571 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1572 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1576 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1579 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1580 the shell. Closes: #178524
1581 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1585 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1588 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1592 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1595 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1599 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1602 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1603 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1604 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1605 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1610 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1613 files from installation.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1617 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1620 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1621 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1625 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1628 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1632 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1635 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1639 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1645 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1651 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1655 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1656 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1658 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1662 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1665 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1666 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1667 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1668 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1672 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1675 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1682 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1683 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1691 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1702 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1706 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1707 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1708 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1713 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1716 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1717 practice. Closes: #163303
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1721 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1734 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1737 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1739 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1740 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1741 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1742 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1743 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1747 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1750 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1768 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1771 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1776 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1794 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1804 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1805 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1806 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1807 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1818 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1828 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1829 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1836 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1837 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1838 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1839 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1840 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1844 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1847 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1849 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1857 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1864 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1865 right thing. Closes: #150644
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Stupid, evil typo.
1872 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1886 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1887 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1901 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1908 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1909 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1917 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1930 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1931 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Removing perl warning message.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1950 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1951 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1952 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1953 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1954 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1955 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1956 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1957 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1967 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1974 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1977 debconf-mergetemplate.
1978 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1979 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1986 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1987 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1988 dh_install, which ...
1989 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1990 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1991 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1992 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1993 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1994 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1995 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1996 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1997 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1998 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1999 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2000 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2001 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2002 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2003 other minor changes.
2004 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2005 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2006 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2007 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2008 course there's -X ..)
2009 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2010 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2011 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2013 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2014 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2015 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2016 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2017 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2022 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2028 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2031 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2035 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2041 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2047 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2053 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2059 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2062 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2063 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2064 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2065 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2067 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2068 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2072 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2078 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2081 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2085 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2088 upset. Closes: #131322
2090 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2092 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2095 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2096 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2097 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2098 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2099 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2100 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2101 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2102 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2103 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2104 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2105 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2106 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2107 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2108 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2109 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2111 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2115 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2118 - Better indenting of generated code.
2119 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2123 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2127 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2128 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2129 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2130 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2131 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2132 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2133 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2137 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2140 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2144 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2147 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2148 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2149 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2150 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2151 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2152 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2153 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2154 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2155 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2156 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2157 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2158 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2159 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2160 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2161 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2166 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2172 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2175 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2176 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2180 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2183 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2184 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2188 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2194 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2197 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2198 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2199 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2200 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2201 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2206 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2212 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2215 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2219 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2222 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2227 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2233 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2236 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2240 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2246 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2250 Also some indentation fixes.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2254 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2257 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2258 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2259 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2260 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2261 Closes: #106514, #85520
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2265 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2271 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2277 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2283 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2289 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2295 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2298 change it in debhelper v4..
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2302 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2308 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2311 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2318 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2322 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2328 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2331 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2332 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2333 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2334 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2335 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2336 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2337 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2338 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2339 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2340 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2341 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2342 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2346 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2349 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2353 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2360 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2363 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2364 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2365 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2366 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2367 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2368 program those options go to. So, for example,
2369 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2370 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2371 something complex. Closes: #89311
2372 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2376 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2379 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2380 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2381 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2385 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2388 through loop. Closes: #98598
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2392 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Missing semi-colon.
2395 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2396 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2400 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2403 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2404 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2405 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2409 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2412 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2413 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2417 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2420 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2424 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2427 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2428 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2432 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2435 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2436 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2437 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2441 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2444 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2445 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2446 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2450 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2453 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2457 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2463 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2469 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2475 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2481 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2484 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2488 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2491 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2492 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2493 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2494 followed. Closes: #85483
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2498 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2500 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2501 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2502 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2506 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2509 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2510 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2511 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2512 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2513 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2514 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2515 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2516 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2517 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2518 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2519 Closes: #88464, #77743
2520 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2521 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2522 us to deal with that gracefully.
2523 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2525 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2526 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2527 a while, Closes: #51225
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2531 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2537 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2540 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2544 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2548 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2553 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2556 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2557 don't make packlist files.
2558 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2559 debhelper coding standards.
2560 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2561 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2565 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2568 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2572 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2575 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2576 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2577 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2578 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2579 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2580 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2581 but is mildly deprecated.
2582 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2583 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2584 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2585 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2586 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2587 switching to statoverrides..
2588 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2589 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2590 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2591 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2592 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2593 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2595 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2596 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2597 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2598 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2599 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2600 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2601 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2602 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2603 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2605 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2606 variable names, pod man pages).
2607 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2608 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2609 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2610 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2611 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2612 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2613 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2617 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2623 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2630 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2633 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2637 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2639 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2640 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2641 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2645 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2647 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2648 they were previously ignored.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2652 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2654 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2655 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2659 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2661 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2662 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2663 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2667 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2669 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2673 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2675 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2676 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2680 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2682 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2683 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2684 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2685 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2686 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2687 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2688 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2689 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2690 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2691 it is an obsolete program.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2695 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2697 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2701 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2705 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2707 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2711 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2713 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2715 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2717 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2721 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2727 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * typo: Closes, #78567
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2733 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2739 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2745 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2748 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2749 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2750 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2751 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2752 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2756 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2759 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2764 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2767 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2768 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2769 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2770 backwards-compatability.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2774 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2777 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2778 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2779 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2780 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2781 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2782 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2784 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2785 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2786 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2788 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2790 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2791 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2792 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2793 should now be raised to severity important..
2794 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2795 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2799 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2802 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2807 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2813 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2819 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2825 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2832 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2835 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2836 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2837 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2838 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2842 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2848 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2851 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2852 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2853 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2854 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2855 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2856 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2861 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2864 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2868 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2874 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2877 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2882 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2885 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2886 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2887 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2888 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2892 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2896 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2899 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2902 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2903 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2906 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2908 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2909 the TODO entry about it.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2913 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2920 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2923 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2924 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2928 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2931 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2932 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2933 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2934 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2938 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2944 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2954 (this appears to be logal).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2958 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2961 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2962 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2963 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2964 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2968 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2974 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2977 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2978 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2979 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2980 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2984 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2990 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2993 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2997 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3004 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3007 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3008 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3009 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3014 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3021 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3027 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3030 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3031 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3032 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3033 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3034 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3035 notice until v2 is complete.
3036 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3037 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3038 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3039 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3040 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3041 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3043 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3044 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3045 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3046 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3050 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3056 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3063 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3066 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3070 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3077 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3079 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3080 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3081 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3082 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3083 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3088 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3091 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3092 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3093 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3098 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3101 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3102 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3106 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3109 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3113 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3116 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3120 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3127 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3130 depend on the build and install targets.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3134 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3137 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3141 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3148 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3154 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3163 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3164 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3165 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3166 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3167 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3168 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3170 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3171 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3172 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3173 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3174 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3175 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3176 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3180 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3186 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3192 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3195 right place. Closes: #55065
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3199 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3206 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3209 * Copyright date updates.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3213 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3216 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3227 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3234 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3240 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3246 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3252 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3255 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3256 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3257 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3258 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3259 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3260 bits until all files have been registered.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3264 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_installmanpages:
3267 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3268 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3269 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3270 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3271 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3272 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3273 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3274 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3275 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3276 otherwise change the result at all.
3278 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3279 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3280 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3281 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3282 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3287 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3293 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3296 act on files that don't exist.
3297 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3298 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3299 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3301 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3302 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3303 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3304 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3308 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3314 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3320 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3323 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3327 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3330 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3332 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3333 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3334 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3338 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3341 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3342 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3343 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3344 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3345 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3346 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3347 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3349 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3351 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3362 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3368 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3374 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3377 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3381 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3387 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3393 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3396 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3397 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3398 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3399 I made some changes, though:
3400 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3401 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3402 that is a clear violation of policy.
3403 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3404 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3405 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3406 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3407 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3408 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3409 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3410 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3411 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3413 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3417 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3423 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3426 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3430 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3433 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3434 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3439 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3445 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3452 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3455 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3456 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3457 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3458 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3459 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3460 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3461 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3465 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3475 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3476 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3486 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3489 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3493 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3496 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3497 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3501 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3503 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3508 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3512 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3516 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3519 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3520 for the dependancies to be generated.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3524 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3527 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3531 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3534 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3535 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3536 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3544 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3545 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3561 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3564 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3568 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3574 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3577 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3578 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3579 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3580 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3581 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3582 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3583 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3584 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3585 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3586 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3587 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3588 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3595 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3596 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3598 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3599 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3600 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3601 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3602 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3603 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3605 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3606 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3613 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3617 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3627 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3635 for building debhelper.
3636 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3640 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3647 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3650 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3654 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3657 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3658 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3659 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3660 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3661 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3662 it's always available.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3666 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3669 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3670 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3671 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3675 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3678 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3679 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3683 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3692 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3705 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3706 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3707 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3711 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3714 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3719 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3722 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3723 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3725 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3726 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3730 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3736 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3745 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3749 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3752 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3753 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3755 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3759 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3762 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3763 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3764 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3768 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3770 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3771 things if CDPATH is set.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3781 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3784 seems to make sense for the transition.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3791 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3796 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3799 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3800 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3804 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3807 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3811 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3814 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3815 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3816 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3817 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3830 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3831 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3832 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3833 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3834 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3835 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3836 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3837 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3838 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3839 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3844 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3847 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3848 * README: mention doc/v2
3849 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3850 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3854 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3856 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3857 be using this script RSN.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3861 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3864 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3865 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3866 more than 1 init script.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3870 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3873 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3877 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * Changed perl version detection.
3880 * Changed call to find.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3884 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3887 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3889 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3894 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Really include dh_installpam.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3900 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3903 * Wrote man page for same.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3907 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3910 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3911 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3916 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3923 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3926 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3927 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3928 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3929 x bit was being set!
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3933 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3936 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3937 well. (Closes: 38900)
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3941 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3944 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3945 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3949 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3955 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3962 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3968 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3971 help from Julian Gilbey.
3972 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3973 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3974 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3975 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3976 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3977 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3978 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3983 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3989 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3996 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4002 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4008 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4011 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4015 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4018 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4022 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4025 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4029 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4035 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4038 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4042 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4048 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4054 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4057 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4058 may be deleted. (#35845)
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4062 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * Various man page enhancements.
4065 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4073 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4074 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4078 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4081 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4082 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4083 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4085 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4086 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4091 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4097 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * Another very minor typo fix.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4103 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Very minor typo fix.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4109 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4112 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4113 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4117 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4123 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4126 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4127 variables properly (#34850).
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4131 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4137 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4140 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4141 (automatically generated by build process).
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4145 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4147 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4151 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4154 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4155 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4157 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4161 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4164 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4168 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * README: minor typo fix.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4174 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4177 leave it at that. :-)
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4181 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4187 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4193 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4196 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4197 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4198 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4202 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4205 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4209 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4212 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4216 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4219 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4220 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4221 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4222 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4226 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4229 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4230 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4231 Craig Small for spotting this.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4235 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4238 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4239 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4243 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4249 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4252 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4256 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4258 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4259 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4260 working on the last version of debhelper.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4264 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4267 being made. (#23255)
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4271 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4277 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4280 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4284 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4287 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4288 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4289 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4290 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4294 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4297 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4298 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4299 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4300 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4302 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4303 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4305 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4310 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4316 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4322 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4325 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4326 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4327 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4328 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4329 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4330 suidregister actually supports it.
4331 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4332 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4336 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4343 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4346 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4347 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4348 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4349 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4350 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4351 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4352 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4356 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4358 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4359 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4363 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4366 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4367 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4368 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4369 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4373 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4376 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4378 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4379 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4380 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4381 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4382 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4383 effect, either. (#30118)
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4387 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4393 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4396 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4397 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4401 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4407 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4410 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4411 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4412 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4413 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4417 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4420 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4421 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4425 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4427 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4431 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4434 packages, painlessly.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4438 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4444 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4450 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4456 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * The perl conversion is complete.
4460 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4462 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4463 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4464 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4469 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4472 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4473 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4474 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4478 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4481 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4483 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4485 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4486 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4490 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4492 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4493 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4494 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4498 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4507 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4508 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4509 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4510 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4511 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4515 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4518 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4519 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4520 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4521 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4528 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4535 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4536 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4537 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4538 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4539 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4540 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4541 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4542 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4546 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4552 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4555 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4556 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4557 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4562 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4565 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4569 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4572 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4576 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4579 sections of shared libraries.
4580 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4581 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4582 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4583 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4584 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4585 things you don't want them to.
4586 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4587 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4591 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4594 shared libraries. (#26414)
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4600 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4601 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4602 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4603 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4611 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4613 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4614 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4615 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4616 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4617 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4624 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4628 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4631 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4632 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4640 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4644 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4647 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4648 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4649 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4650 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4651 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4653 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4654 remove debian/files properly.
4655 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4656 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4657 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4658 * Removed bogus menu file.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4662 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4665 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4669 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4671 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4672 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4673 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4674 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4675 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4676 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4677 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4681 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4684 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4685 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4686 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4687 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4691 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4698 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4701 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4702 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4704 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4705 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4706 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4707 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4708 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4709 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4713 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4715 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4716 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4717 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4718 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4719 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4720 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4721 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4722 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4723 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4724 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4725 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4726 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4727 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4728 passed any switches.
4729 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4733 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4735 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4736 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4737 at all for a long while.
4738 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4739 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4740 large chunks in the process.
4741 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4742 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4743 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4751 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4753 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4758 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4761 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4762 that don't always have the same files in them.
4763 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4764 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4765 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4769 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4773 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4774 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4775 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4776 updating 27 man pages.
4777 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4778 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4779 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4780 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4781 programs act on. (#25247)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4785 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4789 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4790 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4791 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4792 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4793 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4794 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4799 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4806 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4813 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4816 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4820 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4826 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4829 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4830 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4831 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4832 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4833 package by accident.
4834 * Is version 1.0 next?
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4838 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4841 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4842 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4846 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4849 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4850 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4851 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4852 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4853 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4855 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4860 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4863 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4864 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4868 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4871 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4875 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4878 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4879 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4884 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4886 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4890 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4893 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4894 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4899 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4905 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4908 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4909 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4910 past week. Thanks, guys!
4912 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4913 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4914 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4915 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4916 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4917 would do in the same situation.
4918 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4919 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4921 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4923 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4924 permissions changed.
4925 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4926 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4927 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4928 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4929 files are treated identically.
4930 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4931 * Minor man page fixes.
4932 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4933 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4934 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4938 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4941 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4942 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4943 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4944 use -X multiple times, too.
4945 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4946 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4950 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4953 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4954 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4958 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4961 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4965 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4968 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4969 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4970 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4971 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4972 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4973 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4974 shape if you're starting a new package.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4978 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4981 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4985 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4988 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4989 because of missing symlinks.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4993 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4999 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5002 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5003 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5004 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5005 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5006 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5008 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5009 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5013 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5015 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5016 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5017 to be changed after the fact :-)
5018 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5022 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5024 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5025 no version string after the -V.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5029 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5031 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5032 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5037 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5040 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5044 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5047 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5048 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5049 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5050 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5051 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5052 I always welcome corrections!
5054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5056 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5058 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5062 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5064 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5065 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5066 * Documented this new switch.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5070 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5073 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5074 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5075 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5076 no packages use the old behavior.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5080 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5083 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5084 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5088 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5091 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5095 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5101 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5104 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5108 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5110 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5111 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5112 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5113 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5117 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5123 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5126 into the source package by accident.
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5130 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5133 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5134 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5135 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5136 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5137 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5138 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5143 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5147 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5148 inspired to implement some of it.
5149 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5153 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5156 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5160 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5163 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5164 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5168 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5171 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5172 have done.) (#17598)
5174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5176 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5178 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5182 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5188 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5191 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5195 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5198 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5199 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5203 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5206 argument processor in perl.
5207 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5208 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5209 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5210 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5214 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5217 type directories. (#16933)
5218 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5219 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5220 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5221 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5222 are supported. (#16935)
5223 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5228 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5231 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5235 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5237 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5239 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5240 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5241 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5242 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5243 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5244 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5248 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5250 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5251 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5252 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5254 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5255 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5256 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5257 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5258 a given package, or -i or -a.
5259 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5260 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5261 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5262 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5263 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5264 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5265 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5266 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5267 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5269 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5270 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5271 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5275 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5278 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5279 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5284 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5287 does not have a section.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5291 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5294 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5295 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5296 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5300 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * Fixed typo #16215.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5306 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5309 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5310 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5311 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5312 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5313 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5318 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5321 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5322 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5323 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5328 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5334 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5340 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5343 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5344 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5345 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5346 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5347 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5348 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5352 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5358 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5361 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5365 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5368 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5369 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5370 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5374 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5377 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5381 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5383 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5387 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5390 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5394 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5397 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5401 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5407 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5410 postinst, postrm, etc.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5414 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5420 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5423 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5424 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5425 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5426 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5427 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5431 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5434 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5435 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5439 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5442 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5446 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5449 installing package files into.
5450 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5455 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5459 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5463 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5469 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5472 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5476 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5479 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5480 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5481 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5482 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5486 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5488 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5489 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5490 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5491 multiple binary packages.
5492 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5493 should rebuild them with this version.
5494 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5498 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5500 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5501 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5505 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5507 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5508 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5512 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5515 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5516 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5517 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5518 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5519 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5520 debian/README.debian.
5521 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5522 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5523 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5524 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5525 in a few situations.)
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5529 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5535 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5541 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5544 * Fixed several man pages.
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5548 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5551 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5552 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5556 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5559 is ready for general use.
5560 * Added man pages for all commands.
5561 * Multiple binary package support.
5562 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5563 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5564 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5566 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5567 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5568 auto-installed as parameters.
5569 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5571 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5574 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5575 the package build directory it is to act on.
5576 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5577 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5578 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5582 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5584 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5585 ready to replace debstd.
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400