1 debhelper (5.0.61) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:06:44 -0500
7 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
10 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
11 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
12 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
13 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
14 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
18 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
21 debian/package.triggers files.
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
25 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
27 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
28 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
32 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
35 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
36 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
37 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
38 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
43 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
46 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
50 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
53 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
54 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
56 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
61 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
65 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
66 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
67 * Typo. Closes: #441272
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
71 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
78 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
85 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
88 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
90 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
91 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
92 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
94 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
95 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
96 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
100 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
103 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
104 * Update urls to web page.
105 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
107 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
108 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
112 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
115 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
116 - typo in alternatives call
117 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
119 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
120 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
124 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
127 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
132 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
138 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
144 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
146 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
147 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
149 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
150 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
151 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
152 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
153 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
154 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
155 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
156 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
157 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
158 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
159 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
163 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
166 package install. Closes: #415717
167 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
168 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
169 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
170 script and then remove the python files.
171 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
172 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
173 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
174 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
175 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
176 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
177 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
178 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
179 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
180 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
181 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
182 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
183 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
187 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Correct typo in french translation
193 * Typo. Closes: #400571
194 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
196 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
198 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
199 Closes: #406921, #381940
200 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
202 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
203 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
204 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
205 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
206 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
207 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
208 specified). Closes: #381851
209 * Misc minor changes.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
213 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
216 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
220 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
221 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
225 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
231 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
232 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
235 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
236 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
238 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
239 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
240 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
241 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
245 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
248 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
251 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
255 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
261 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
267 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
268 a difficult situation.
269 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
270 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
271 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
272 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
273 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
274 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
275 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
276 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
277 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
278 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
282 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Non-maintainer upload.
285 * Update of dh_python
286 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
287 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
289 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
290 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
291 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
292 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
293 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
295 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
297 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Non-maintainer upload.
300 * Update of dh_python
301 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
302 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
303 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
304 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
305 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
306 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
307 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
308 specific python version. Closes: #373853
309 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
310 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
312 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
313 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
314 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
315 the not too-distant future).
316 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
317 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
318 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
319 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
320 thus made the build fail.
322 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
324 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Non-maintainer upload.
327 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
329 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
331 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
334 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
335 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
336 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
337 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
338 package. Closes: #301424
339 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
340 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
341 fonts). Closes: #372686
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
345 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
351 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
352 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
353 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
354 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
355 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
356 above, but already depends on that.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
360 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
362 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
363 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
364 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
365 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
366 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
367 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
371 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
377 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
383 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
384 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
388 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
391 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
395 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
399 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
400 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
401 new version (0.24.1).
402 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
403 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
406 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
407 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
408 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
409 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
410 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
411 new directory on their own.
412 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
413 * Fix broken directory removal code.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
417 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
420 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
421 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
422 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
423 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
427 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
430 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
431 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
432 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
433 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
434 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
438 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
440 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
444 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Typo. Closes: #358904
448 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
449 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
453 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
454 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
458 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
460 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
461 || exit 0 instead of the intended
463 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
464 ignored. Closes: #337664
466 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
471 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
477 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
482 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
483 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
484 the dh_installdebconf manpage
485 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
486 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
487 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
488 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
492 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
495 version. Closes: #350607
496 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
497 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
498 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
499 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
503 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
506 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
507 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
508 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
512 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
519 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Minor bug fix from last release.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
525 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
528 language guessing. Closes: #193221
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
532 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
535 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
536 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
537 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
538 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
539 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
540 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
544 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
547 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
548 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
553 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
556 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
560 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
563 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
567 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
570 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
571 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
572 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
573 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
574 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
575 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
579 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
582 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
583 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
584 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
585 link. Closes: #346405
586 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
589 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
590 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
591 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
592 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
593 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
594 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
598 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
605 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
607 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
611 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
613 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
614 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
618 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
621 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
626 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
630 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
631 installed. Closes: #342033
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
638 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
639 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
640 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
645 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
651 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
657 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
661 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
662 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
663 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
667 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
670 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
675 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
682 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
688 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
690 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
691 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
692 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
693 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
694 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
695 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
696 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
697 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
699 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
703 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
706 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
707 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
711 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
713 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
714 in standard man dirs.
715 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
719 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
725 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
728 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
733 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
740 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
747 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
750 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
751 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
755 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
757 * NMU with maintainer approval.
758 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
759 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
760 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
762 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
764 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
766 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
770 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
776 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
779 mode. Closes: #324161
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
783 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
786 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
787 behavior change. Closes: #249815
788 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
789 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
794 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
797 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
798 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
799 is necesary for sanity.
800 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
801 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
806 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
808 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
809 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
813 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
816 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
820 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
826 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
829 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
830 released, so use at your own risk.
831 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
832 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
834 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
835 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
836 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
837 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
838 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
839 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
840 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
841 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
842 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
843 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
844 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
845 including twice per config file line now..
846 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
847 and simplfy the rules file.
848 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
849 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
850 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
852 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
853 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
857 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
860 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
864 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
866 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
867 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
871 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
873 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
874 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
878 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
881 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
882 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
883 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
884 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
885 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
886 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
890 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
893 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
894 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
895 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
900 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
903 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
904 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
909 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
911 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
912 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
913 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
914 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
919 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
921 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
922 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
923 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
924 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
928 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
934 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
941 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
944 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
945 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
946 unknown. Closes: #282924
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
950 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
957 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Spanish man page updates.
960 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
965 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
967 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
971 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
974 * dh_desktop: reindent
975 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
976 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
980 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
986 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
988 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
992 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
994 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
998 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1001 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1002 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1006 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1012 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1018 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1025 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1028 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1032 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1035 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1036 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1037 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1038 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1039 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1040 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1042 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1043 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1044 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1045 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1046 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1047 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1048 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1049 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1050 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1051 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1052 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1053 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1054 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1055 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1056 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1057 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1061 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1068 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1071 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1075 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1078 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1082 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1085 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1089 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1092 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1096 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1102 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1108 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1114 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1117 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1118 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1119 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1123 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1126 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1130 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1133 but occasionally right and necessary.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1137 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1140 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1141 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1142 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1143 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1144 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1148 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1151 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1153 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1154 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1155 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1156 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1157 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1158 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1159 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1160 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1161 postinst scripts for udebs.
1162 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1166 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1169 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1171 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1172 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1176 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1182 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1189 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1199 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1203 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1206 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1210 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1213 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1216 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1217 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1221 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1227 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1230 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1234 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1237 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1238 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1239 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1241 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1243 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1244 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1245 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1249 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1252 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1257 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1260 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1261 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1262 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1267 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1273 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1279 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1282 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1283 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1284 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1285 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1286 associated -dbg packages.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1290 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1293 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1300 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1304 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1307 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1311 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1314 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1319 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1322 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1326 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1329 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1337 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1345 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1346 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1347 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1348 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1349 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1350 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1351 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1352 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1353 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1354 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1358 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1361 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1366 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1369 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1370 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1374 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1377 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1378 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1386 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1393 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1400 out section number. Closes: #204731
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1411 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1417 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1423 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1426 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1427 removal. Closes: #204286
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1431 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1434 renaming. Closes: #203548
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1441 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1442 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1446 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1458 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1464 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1467 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1468 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1469 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1473 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1476 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1477 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1481 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1487 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1494 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1497 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1502 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1505 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1509 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1512 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1514 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1515 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1519 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1522 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1527 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1530 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1540 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1542 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1546 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1549 it break hard links (see #188663).
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1553 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1556 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1560 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1566 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1570 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1571 debconf-mergetemplates
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1575 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1578 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1582 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1585 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1589 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1592 * Update debhelper(1).
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1599 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1600 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1601 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1602 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1603 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1610 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1611 the shell. Closes: #178524
1612 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1616 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1619 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1623 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1626 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1630 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1633 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1634 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1635 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1636 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1641 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1644 files from installation.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1648 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1651 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1652 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1656 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1659 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1663 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1666 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1670 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1676 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1682 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1686 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1687 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1689 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1696 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1697 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1698 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1699 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1703 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1706 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1713 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1714 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1718 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1722 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1727 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1737 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1738 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1739 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1747 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1748 practice. Closes: #163303
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1758 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1765 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1768 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1770 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1771 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1772 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1773 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1774 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1778 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1781 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1786 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1792 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1799 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1802 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1807 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1832 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1835 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1836 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1837 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1838 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1856 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1859 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1860 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1867 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1868 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1869 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1870 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1871 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1878 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1880 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1885 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1888 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1892 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1895 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1896 right thing. Closes: #150644
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Stupid, evil typo.
1903 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1907 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1914 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1917 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1918 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1932 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1939 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1940 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1945 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1948 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1952 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1961 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1962 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1972 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Removing perl warning message.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1981 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1982 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1983 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1984 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1985 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1986 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1987 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1988 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2005 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2008 debconf-mergetemplate.
2009 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2010 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2017 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2018 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2019 dh_install, which ...
2020 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2021 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2022 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2023 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2024 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2025 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2026 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2027 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2028 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2029 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2030 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2031 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2032 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2033 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2034 other minor changes.
2035 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2036 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2037 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2038 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2039 course there's -X ..)
2040 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2041 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2042 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2044 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2045 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2046 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2047 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2048 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2053 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2059 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2062 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2066 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2072 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2078 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2084 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2090 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2093 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2094 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2095 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2096 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2098 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2099 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2103 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2109 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2112 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2116 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2119 upset. Closes: #131322
2121 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2123 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2126 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2127 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2128 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2129 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2130 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2131 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2132 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2133 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2134 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2135 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2136 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2137 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2138 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2139 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2140 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2142 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2146 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2149 - Better indenting of generated code.
2150 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2154 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2158 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2159 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2160 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2161 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2162 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2163 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2164 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2168 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2171 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2175 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2178 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2179 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2180 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2181 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2182 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2183 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2184 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2185 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2186 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2187 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2188 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2189 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2190 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2191 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2192 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2197 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2203 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2206 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2207 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2211 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2214 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2215 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2219 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2225 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2228 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2229 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2230 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2231 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2232 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2237 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2243 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2246 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2250 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2253 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2258 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2264 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2267 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2271 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2277 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2281 Also some indentation fixes.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2285 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2288 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2289 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2290 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2291 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2292 Closes: #106514, #85520
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2296 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2302 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2308 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2314 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2320 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2326 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2329 change it in debhelper v4..
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2333 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2339 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2342 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2346 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2349 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2353 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2359 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2362 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2363 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2364 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2365 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2366 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2367 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2368 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2369 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2370 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2371 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2372 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2373 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2377 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2380 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2384 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2391 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2394 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2395 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2396 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2397 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2398 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2399 program those options go to. So, for example,
2400 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2401 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2402 something complex. Closes: #89311
2403 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2407 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2410 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2411 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2412 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2416 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2419 through loop. Closes: #98598
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2423 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Missing semi-colon.
2426 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2427 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2431 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2434 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2435 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2436 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2440 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2443 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2444 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2448 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2451 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2455 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2458 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2459 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2463 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2466 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2467 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2468 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2472 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2475 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2476 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2477 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2481 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2484 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2488 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2494 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2500 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2506 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2512 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2515 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2519 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2522 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2523 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2524 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2525 followed. Closes: #85483
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2529 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2531 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2532 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2533 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2537 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2540 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2541 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2542 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2543 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2544 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2545 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2546 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2547 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2548 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2549 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2550 Closes: #88464, #77743
2551 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2552 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2553 us to deal with that gracefully.
2554 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2556 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2557 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2558 a while, Closes: #51225
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2562 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2568 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2571 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2575 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2579 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2584 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2587 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2588 don't make packlist files.
2589 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2590 debhelper coding standards.
2591 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2592 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2596 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2599 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2603 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2606 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2607 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2608 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2609 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2610 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2611 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2612 but is mildly deprecated.
2613 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2614 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2615 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2616 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2617 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2618 switching to statoverrides..
2619 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2620 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2621 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2622 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2623 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2624 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2626 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2627 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2628 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2629 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2630 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2631 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2632 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2633 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2634 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2636 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2637 variable names, pod man pages).
2638 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2639 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2640 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2641 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2642 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2643 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2644 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2648 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2654 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2661 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2664 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2668 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2670 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2671 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2672 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2676 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2678 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2679 they were previously ignored.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2683 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2685 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2686 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2690 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2692 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2693 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2694 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2698 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2700 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2704 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2706 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2707 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2711 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2713 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2714 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2715 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2716 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2717 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2718 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2719 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2720 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2721 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2722 it is an obsolete program.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2726 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2728 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2732 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2736 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2738 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2742 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2744 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2746 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2748 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2752 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2758 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * typo: Closes, #78567
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2764 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2770 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2776 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2779 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2780 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2781 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2782 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2783 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2790 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2795 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2798 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2799 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2800 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2801 backwards-compatability.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2805 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2808 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2809 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2810 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2811 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2812 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2813 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2815 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2816 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2817 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2819 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2821 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2822 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2823 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2824 should now be raised to severity important..
2825 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2826 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2830 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2833 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2838 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2844 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2850 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2856 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2863 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2866 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2867 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2868 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2869 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2873 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2879 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2882 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2883 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2884 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2885 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2886 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2887 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2892 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2895 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2899 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2905 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2908 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2913 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2916 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2917 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2918 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2919 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2923 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2927 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2930 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2933 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2934 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2937 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2939 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2940 the TODO entry about it.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2944 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2951 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2954 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2955 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2959 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2962 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2963 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2964 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2965 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2969 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2975 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2985 (this appears to be logal).
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2992 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2993 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2994 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2995 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2999 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3005 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3008 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3009 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3010 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3011 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3015 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3021 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3024 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3035 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3038 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3039 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3040 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3052 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3061 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3062 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3063 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3064 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3065 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3066 notice until v2 is complete.
3067 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3068 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3069 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3070 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3071 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3072 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3074 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3075 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3076 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3077 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3081 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3087 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3094 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3097 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3101 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3108 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3111 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3112 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3113 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3114 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3122 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3123 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3124 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3129 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3132 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3133 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3137 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3140 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3144 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3147 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3151 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3158 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3161 depend on the build and install targets.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3165 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3168 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3172 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3179 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3185 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3191 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3194 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3195 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3196 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3197 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3198 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3199 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3201 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3202 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3203 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3204 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3205 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3206 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3207 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3211 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3217 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3223 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3226 right place. Closes: #55065
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3230 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3240 * Copyright date updates.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3244 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3247 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3252 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3258 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3265 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3271 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3277 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3283 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3286 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3287 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3288 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3289 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3290 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3291 bits until all files have been registered.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3295 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_installmanpages:
3298 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3299 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3300 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3301 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3302 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3303 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3304 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3305 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3306 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3307 otherwise change the result at all.
3309 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3310 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3311 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3312 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3313 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3324 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3327 act on files that don't exist.
3328 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3329 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3330 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3332 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3333 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3334 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3335 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3339 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3345 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3351 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3354 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3358 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3361 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3363 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3364 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3365 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3372 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3373 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3374 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3375 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3376 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3377 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3378 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3380 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3382 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3386 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3393 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3399 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3405 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3408 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3424 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3427 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3428 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3429 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3430 I made some changes, though:
3431 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3432 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3433 that is a clear violation of policy.
3434 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3435 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3436 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3437 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3438 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3439 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3440 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3441 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3442 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3444 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3448 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3457 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3461 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3464 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3465 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3470 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3476 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3483 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3486 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3487 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3488 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3489 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3490 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3491 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3492 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3496 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3502 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3506 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3507 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3511 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3517 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3520 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3524 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3527 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3528 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3534 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3539 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3543 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3550 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3551 for the dependancies to be generated.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3555 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3558 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3565 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3566 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3567 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3572 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3575 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3576 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3580 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3595 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3605 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3608 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3609 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3610 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3611 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3612 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3613 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3614 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3615 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3616 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3617 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3618 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3619 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3623 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3626 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3627 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3629 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3630 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3631 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3632 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3633 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3634 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3636 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3637 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3641 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3644 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3655 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3658 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3666 for building debhelper.
3667 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3681 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3688 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3689 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3690 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3691 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3692 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3693 it's always available.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3697 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3700 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3701 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3702 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3706 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3709 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3710 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3723 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3733 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3736 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3737 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3738 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3742 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3745 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3753 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3754 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3756 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3757 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3761 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3767 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3776 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3783 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3784 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3786 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3793 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3794 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3795 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3799 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3802 things if CDPATH is set.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3812 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3815 seems to make sense for the transition.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3819 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3822 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3827 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3830 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3831 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3835 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3838 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3845 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3846 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3847 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3848 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3852 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3858 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3861 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3862 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3863 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3864 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3865 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3866 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3867 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3868 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3869 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3870 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3875 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3878 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3879 * README: mention doc/v2
3880 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3881 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3885 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3887 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3888 be using this script RSN.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3892 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3895 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3896 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3897 more than 1 init script.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3901 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3904 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3908 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Changed perl version detection.
3911 * Changed call to find.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3915 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3918 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3920 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3925 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Really include dh_installpam.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3931 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3934 * Wrote man page for same.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3938 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3941 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3942 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3947 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3954 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3957 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3958 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3959 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3960 x bit was being set!
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3964 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3967 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3968 well. (Closes: 38900)
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3972 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3975 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3976 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3980 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3986 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3993 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3999 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4002 help from Julian Gilbey.
4003 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4004 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4005 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4006 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4007 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4008 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4009 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4014 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4020 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4027 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4033 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4039 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4042 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4046 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4049 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4053 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4056 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4060 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4066 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4069 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4073 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4079 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4085 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4088 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4089 may be deleted. (#35845)
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4093 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Various man page enhancements.
4096 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4101 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4104 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4105 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4109 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4112 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4113 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4114 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4116 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4117 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4122 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4128 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Another very minor typo fix.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4134 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Very minor typo fix.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4140 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4143 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4144 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4148 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4154 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4157 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4158 variables properly (#34850).
4160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4162 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4164 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4168 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4171 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4172 (automatically generated by build process).
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4176 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4178 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4182 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4185 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4186 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4188 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4192 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4195 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4199 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * README: minor typo fix.
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4205 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4208 leave it at that. :-)
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4212 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4218 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4224 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4227 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4228 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4229 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4233 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4235 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4236 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4240 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4243 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4247 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4250 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4251 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4252 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4253 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4257 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4260 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4261 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4262 Craig Small for spotting this.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4266 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4269 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4270 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4274 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4280 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4283 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4287 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4289 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4290 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4291 working on the last version of debhelper.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4295 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4298 being made. (#23255)
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4302 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4308 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4311 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4315 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4318 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4319 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4320 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4321 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4328 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4329 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4330 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4331 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4333 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4334 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4336 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4341 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4347 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4353 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4356 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4357 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4358 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4359 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4360 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4361 suidregister actually supports it.
4362 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4363 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4367 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4369 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4374 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4376 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4377 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4378 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4379 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4380 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4381 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4382 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4383 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4387 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4389 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4390 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4394 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4397 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4398 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4399 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4400 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4404 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4407 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4409 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4410 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4411 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4412 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4413 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4414 effect, either. (#30118)
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4418 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4427 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4428 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4432 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4438 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4441 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4442 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4443 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4444 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4448 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4451 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4452 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4456 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4462 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4465 packages, painlessly.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4469 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4475 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4481 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4483 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4487 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * The perl conversion is complete.
4491 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4493 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4494 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4495 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4500 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4503 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4504 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4505 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4509 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4512 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4514 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4516 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4517 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4521 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4524 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4525 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4529 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4531 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4535 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4538 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4539 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4540 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4541 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4542 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4549 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4550 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4551 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4552 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4556 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4558 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4559 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4563 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4566 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4567 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4568 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4569 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4570 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4571 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4572 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4573 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4577 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4583 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4586 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4587 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4588 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4593 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4596 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4600 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4603 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4610 sections of shared libraries.
4611 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4612 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4613 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4614 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4615 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4616 things you don't want them to.
4617 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4618 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4622 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4625 shared libraries. (#26414)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4631 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4632 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4633 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4634 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4638 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4642 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4644 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4645 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4646 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4647 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4648 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4655 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4662 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4663 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4668 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4671 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4675 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4677 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4678 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4679 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4680 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4681 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4682 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4684 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4685 remove debian/files properly.
4686 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4687 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4688 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4689 * Removed bogus menu file.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4693 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4696 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4700 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4703 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4704 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4705 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4706 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4707 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4708 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4712 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4715 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4716 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4717 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4718 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4729 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4732 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4733 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4735 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4736 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4737 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4738 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4739 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4740 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4744 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4747 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4748 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4749 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4750 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4751 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4752 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4753 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4754 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4755 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4756 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4757 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4758 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4759 passed any switches.
4760 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4764 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4767 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4768 at all for a long while.
4769 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4770 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4771 large chunks in the process.
4772 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4773 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4774 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4782 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4784 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4789 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4792 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4793 that don't always have the same files in them.
4794 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4795 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4796 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4804 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4805 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4806 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4807 updating 27 man pages.
4808 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4809 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4810 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4811 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4812 programs act on. (#25247)
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4820 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4821 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4822 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4823 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4824 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4825 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4830 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4837 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4844 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4847 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4851 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4857 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4860 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4861 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4862 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4863 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4864 package by accident.
4865 * Is version 1.0 next?
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4869 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4872 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4873 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4877 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4880 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4881 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4882 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4883 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4884 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4886 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4891 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4894 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4895 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4899 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4902 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4906 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4909 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4910 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4915 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4921 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4924 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4925 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4930 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4936 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4939 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4940 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4941 past week. Thanks, guys!
4943 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4944 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4945 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4946 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4947 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4948 would do in the same situation.
4949 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4950 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4952 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4954 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4955 permissions changed.
4956 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4957 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4958 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4959 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4960 files are treated identically.
4961 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4962 * Minor man page fixes.
4963 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4964 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4965 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4969 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4972 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4973 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4974 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4975 use -X multiple times, too.
4976 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4977 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4981 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4984 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4985 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4989 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4991 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4992 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4996 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4999 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5000 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5001 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5002 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5003 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5004 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5005 shape if you're starting a new package.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5009 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5012 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5016 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5019 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5020 because of missing symlinks.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5024 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5030 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5033 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5034 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5035 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5036 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5037 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5039 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5040 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5044 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5046 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5047 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5048 to be changed after the fact :-)
5049 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5053 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5055 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5056 no version string after the -V.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5060 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5062 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5063 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5068 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5071 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5075 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5078 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5079 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5080 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5081 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5082 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5083 I always welcome corrections!
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5087 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5093 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5096 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5097 * Documented this new switch.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5101 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5104 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5105 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5106 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5107 no packages use the old behavior.
5109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5111 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5113 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5114 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5115 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5119 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5122 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5126 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5132 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5135 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5139 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5142 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5143 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5144 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5148 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5154 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5157 into the source package by accident.
5159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5161 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5163 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5164 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5165 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5166 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5167 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5168 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5169 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5174 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5178 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5179 inspired to implement some of it.
5180 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5184 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5187 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5191 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5194 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5195 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5199 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5202 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5203 have done.) (#17598)
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5207 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5213 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5219 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5222 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5226 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5229 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5230 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5234 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5237 argument processor in perl.
5238 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5239 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5240 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5241 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5245 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5248 type directories. (#16933)
5249 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5250 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5251 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5252 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5253 are supported. (#16935)
5254 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5259 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5262 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5266 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5270 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5271 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5272 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5273 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5274 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5275 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5279 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5282 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5283 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5285 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5286 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5287 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5288 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5289 a given package, or -i or -a.
5290 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5291 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5292 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5293 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5294 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5295 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5296 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5297 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5298 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5300 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5301 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5302 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5306 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5309 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5310 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5315 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5318 does not have a section.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5322 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5325 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5326 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5327 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5331 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Fixed typo #16215.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5337 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5340 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5341 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5342 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5343 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5344 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5349 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5352 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5353 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5354 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5359 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5365 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5371 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5374 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5375 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5376 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5377 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5378 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5379 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5383 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5389 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5392 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5396 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5399 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5400 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5401 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5405 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5407 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5408 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5412 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5418 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5421 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5425 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5428 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5432 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5438 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5441 postinst, postrm, etc.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5445 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5451 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5453 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5454 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5455 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5456 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5457 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5458 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5465 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5466 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5470 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5473 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5477 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5479 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5480 installing package files into.
5481 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5486 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5490 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5500 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5503 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5507 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5510 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5511 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5512 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5513 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5517 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5519 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5520 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5521 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5522 multiple binary packages.
5523 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5524 should rebuild them with this version.
5525 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5529 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5532 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5536 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5538 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5539 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5543 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5545 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5546 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5547 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5548 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5549 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5550 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5551 debian/README.debian.
5552 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5553 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5554 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5555 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5556 in a few situations.)
5558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5560 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5562 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5566 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5572 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5575 * Fixed several man pages.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5579 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5582 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5583 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5587 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5590 is ready for general use.
5591 * Added man pages for all commands.
5592 * Multiple binary package support.
5593 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5594 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5595 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5597 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5598 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5599 auto-installed as parameters.
5600 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5602 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5605 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5606 the package build directory it is to act on.
5607 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5608 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5609 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5613 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5615 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5616 ready to replace debstd.
5618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400