1 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
5 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
6 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
7 in control file or debhelper config files.
8 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
12 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
15 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
16 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
20 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
23 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
27 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
30 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
31 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
35 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Updated French translation.
38 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
39 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
40 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
41 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
43 * Typo. Closes: #571968
44 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
45 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
46 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
47 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
48 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
49 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
50 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
51 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
52 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
54 * dh: Improve documentation.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
58 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
60 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
61 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
62 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
66 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
69 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
73 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
76 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
80 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
83 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
84 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
85 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
86 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
87 options that they do not support.
88 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
89 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
90 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
91 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
92 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
93 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
98 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
102 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
103 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
104 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
105 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
106 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
107 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
108 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
109 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
110 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
114 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
117 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
118 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
119 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
120 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
124 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Typo. Closes: #558654
127 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
128 installed. Closes: #558782
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
132 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
135 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
136 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
137 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
138 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
139 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
143 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
145 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
146 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
147 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
148 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
152 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
155 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
156 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
160 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
162 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
166 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
168 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
169 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
170 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
171 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
172 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
173 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
174 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
175 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
176 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
177 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
178 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
179 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
180 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
181 time soon.) Closes: #554509
182 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
184 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
185 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
186 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
187 document id. Closes: #555677
188 * Typo. Closes: #555659
189 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
190 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
191 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
192 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
194 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
195 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
196 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
201 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
204 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
205 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
206 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
207 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
208 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
209 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
210 translation (#494300 part 2)
213 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
215 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
216 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
217 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
218 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
219 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
223 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
226 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
227 (It was only run once due to logging.)
228 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
229 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
230 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
231 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
232 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
233 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
234 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
235 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
236 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
237 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
241 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
245 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
248 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
249 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
253 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
256 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
257 flag with arch all/any packages.
258 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
259 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
260 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
261 situation. Closes: #540794
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
265 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
269 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
270 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
271 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
272 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
273 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
276 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
277 the default. Closes: #538201
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
282 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
286 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
287 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
288 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
289 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
290 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
292 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
293 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
294 * Above Closes: #491117
295 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
300 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
306 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
307 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
308 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
312 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
315 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
316 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
317 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
318 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
319 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
324 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
327 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
328 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
332 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
334 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
338 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
340 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
341 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
343 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
344 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
345 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
349 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
351 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
352 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
356 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
362 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
364 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
365 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
366 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
371 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
373 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
377 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
380 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
381 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
382 created by using `python' first during build and install.
384 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
389 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
391 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
395 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
397 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
398 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
402 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
404 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
408 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
410 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
414 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
416 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
417 contributed by Modestas Vainius
418 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
419 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
420 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
421 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
422 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
423 that support it. Closes: #480577
424 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
425 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
426 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
428 - Adds support for cmake.
429 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
430 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
432 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
434 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
435 that use them. The options are:
436 --sourcedir, --destdir
437 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
438 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
439 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
440 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
441 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
445 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
447 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
451 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
453 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
454 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
455 default. Closes: #537140
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
459 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
462 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
463 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
467 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
470 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
474 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
477 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
481 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
484 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
486 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
487 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
488 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
495 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
496 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
497 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
501 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
504 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
505 warning or deprecation message.
506 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
507 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
508 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
509 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
510 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
511 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
512 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
513 Closes: #534639, #357434
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
517 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
523 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
526 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
527 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
528 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
529 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
531 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
532 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
533 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
537 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
543 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
545 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
550 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
553 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
557 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
561 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
562 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
564 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
565 file support. Closes: #494914
566 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
570 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
573 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
574 parameters. Closes: #527256
575 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
576 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
577 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
581 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
585 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
586 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
587 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
591 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
594 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
595 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
596 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
600 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
603 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
604 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
606 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
607 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
608 by triggers). Closes: #521181
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
612 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
616 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
623 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
624 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
625 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
626 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
631 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
637 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
640 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
641 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
642 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
643 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
644 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
646 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
647 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
648 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
649 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
650 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
651 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
655 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
658 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
659 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
660 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
661 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
662 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
664 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
668 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
670 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
674 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
676 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
677 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
678 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
679 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
680 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
681 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
682 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
683 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
684 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
685 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
686 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
690 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
692 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
693 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
695 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
696 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
697 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
698 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
700 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
701 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
705 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
707 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
708 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
709 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
710 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
711 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
712 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
713 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
715 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
716 that uses them. Affected options are:
717 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
718 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
719 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
720 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
721 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
722 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
723 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
724 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
725 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
726 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
727 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
728 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
732 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
739 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
745 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
747 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
748 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
750 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
751 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
752 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
753 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
754 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
756 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
758 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
759 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
760 rules (see bug #509756).
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
764 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
770 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
771 * Typo. Closes: #493062
772 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
773 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
777 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
780 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
781 empty files. Closes: #490937
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
785 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
791 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
798 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
800 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
801 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
802 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
803 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
804 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
809 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
811 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
812 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
813 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
814 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
818 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
821 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
822 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
823 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
824 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
825 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
829 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
836 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
838 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
839 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
840 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
841 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
842 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
843 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
844 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
845 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
846 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
847 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
851 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
854 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
855 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
856 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
857 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
859 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
860 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
861 breaking backwards compatibility.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
865 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
868 message in perl 5.10.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
872 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
878 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Convert copyright file to new format.
881 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
885 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
888 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
892 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
895 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
896 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
897 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
898 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
899 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
900 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
901 logging by dh_listpackages.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
905 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
908 run and there are no packages of that type.
909 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
910 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
911 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
912 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
914 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
915 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
919 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
921 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
922 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
923 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
927 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
930 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
931 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
933 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
934 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
935 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
936 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
937 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
938 planned but not yet implemented.)
939 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
940 if the Makefile has such a target.
941 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
942 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
943 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
944 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
945 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
946 but not yet implemented.)
947 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
948 recommended default, especially when using dh.
949 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
950 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
951 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
953 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
955 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
956 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
958 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
959 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
960 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
965 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
968 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
969 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
973 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
975 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
976 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
977 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
981 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
987 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
993 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
996 just those installed by the program.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1000 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1003 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1004 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1008 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1011 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1012 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1013 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1014 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1018 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1021 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1022 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1026 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1029 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1030 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1034 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1037 with policy. Closes: #461392
1038 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1039 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1040 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1041 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1042 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1046 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1049 Closes: #460340, #460351
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1053 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1056 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1057 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1058 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1059 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1063 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1066 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1067 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1068 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1069 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1070 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1071 package build directory won't work.
1072 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1073 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1074 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1075 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1076 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1077 mode. Closes: #459426
1078 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1083 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1086 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1090 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1094 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1095 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1096 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1097 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1098 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1099 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1106 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1107 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1108 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1109 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1116 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1117 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1118 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1119 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1120 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1124 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1127 debian/package.triggers files.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1131 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1134 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1138 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1141 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1142 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1143 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1144 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1152 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1156 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1159 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1160 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1162 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1167 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1171 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1172 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1173 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1177 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1184 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1191 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1194 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1196 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1197 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1198 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1200 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1201 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1202 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1206 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1209 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1210 * Update urls to web page.
1211 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1212 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1213 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1214 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1221 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1222 - typo in alternatives call
1223 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1225 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1226 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1230 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1233 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1238 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1244 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1250 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1253 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1255 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1256 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1257 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1258 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1259 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1260 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1261 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1262 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1263 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1264 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1265 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1269 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1272 package install. Closes: #415717
1273 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1274 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1275 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1276 script and then remove the python files.
1277 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1278 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1279 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1280 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1281 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1282 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1283 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1284 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1285 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1286 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1287 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1288 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1289 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1293 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Correct typo in french translation
1299 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1300 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1302 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1304 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1305 Closes: #406921, #381940
1306 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1308 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1309 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1310 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1311 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1312 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1313 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1314 specified). Closes: #381851
1315 * Misc minor changes.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1319 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1326 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1327 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1337 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1338 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1341 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1342 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1344 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1345 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1346 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1347 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1351 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1354 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1357 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1361 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1367 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1373 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1374 a difficult situation.
1375 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1376 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1377 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1378 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1379 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1380 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1381 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1382 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1383 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1384 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1388 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Non-maintainer upload.
1391 * Update of dh_python
1392 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1393 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1395 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1396 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1397 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1398 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1399 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1401 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1403 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Non-maintainer upload.
1406 * Update of dh_python
1407 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1408 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1409 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1410 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1411 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1412 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1413 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1414 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1415 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1416 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1418 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1419 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1420 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1421 the not too-distant future).
1422 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1423 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1424 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1425 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1426 thus made the build fail.
1428 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1430 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Non-maintainer upload.
1433 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1435 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1437 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1440 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1441 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1442 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1443 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1444 package. Closes: #301424
1445 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1446 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1447 fonts). Closes: #372686
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1451 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1457 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1458 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1459 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1460 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1461 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1462 above, but already depends on that.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1469 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1470 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1471 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1472 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1473 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1477 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1483 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1489 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1490 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1494 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1497 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1501 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1505 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1506 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1507 new version (0.24.1).
1508 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1509 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1512 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1513 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1514 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1515 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1516 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1517 new directory on their own.
1518 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1519 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1523 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1526 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1527 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1528 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1529 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1533 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1536 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1537 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1538 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1539 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1540 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1544 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1550 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1554 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1555 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1559 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1560 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1564 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1566 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1567 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1569 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1570 ignored. Closes: #337664
1572 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1577 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1583 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1588 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1589 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1590 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1591 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1592 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1593 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1594 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1598 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1601 version. Closes: #350607
1602 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1603 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1604 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1605 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1609 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1612 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1613 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1614 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1618 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1625 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1631 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1634 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1641 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1642 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1643 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1644 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1645 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1646 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1653 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1654 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1662 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1666 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1669 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1673 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1676 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1677 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1678 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1679 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1680 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1681 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1685 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1689 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1690 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1691 link. Closes: #346405
1692 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1694 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1695 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1696 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1697 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1698 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1699 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1700 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1704 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1711 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1717 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1720 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1724 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1727 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1732 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1736 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1737 installed. Closes: #342033
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1741 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1744 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1745 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1746 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1757 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1763 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1767 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1768 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1769 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1773 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1776 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1781 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1788 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1794 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1797 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1798 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1799 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1800 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1801 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1802 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1803 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1805 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1809 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1812 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1813 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1820 in standard man dirs.
1821 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1825 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1834 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1853 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1856 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1857 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1864 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1865 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1866 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1868 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1870 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1876 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1882 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1885 mode. Closes: #324161
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1892 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1893 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1894 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1895 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1900 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1903 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1904 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1905 is necesary for sanity.
1906 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1907 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1914 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1915 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1922 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1926 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1932 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1934 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1935 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1936 released, so use at your own risk.
1937 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1938 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1940 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1941 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1942 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1943 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1944 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1945 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1946 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1947 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1948 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1949 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1950 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1951 including twice per config file line now..
1952 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1953 and simplfy the rules file.
1954 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1955 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1956 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1958 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1959 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1963 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1966 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1970 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1973 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1980 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1987 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1988 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1989 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1990 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1991 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1992 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1999 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2000 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2001 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2006 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2009 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2010 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2015 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2018 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2019 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2020 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2025 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2028 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2029 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2030 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2034 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2040 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2047 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2050 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2051 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2052 unknown. Closes: #282924
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2056 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Spanish man page updates.
2066 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2077 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2080 * dh_desktop: reindent
2081 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2082 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2092 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2094 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2100 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2104 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2107 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2108 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2112 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2118 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2131 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2134 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2141 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2142 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2143 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2144 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2145 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2146 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2148 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2149 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2150 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2151 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2152 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2153 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2154 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2155 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2156 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2157 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2158 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2159 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2160 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2161 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2162 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2163 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2174 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2177 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2181 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2184 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2191 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2198 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2220 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2223 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2224 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2225 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2229 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2232 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2236 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2239 but occasionally right and necessary.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2246 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2247 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2248 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2249 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2250 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2257 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2259 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2260 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2261 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2262 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2263 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2264 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2265 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2266 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2267 postinst scripts for udebs.
2268 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2275 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2277 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2278 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2282 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2295 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2302 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2305 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2309 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2312 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2319 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2322 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2323 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2336 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2340 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2343 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2344 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2345 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2347 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2349 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2350 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2351 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2355 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2358 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2363 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2366 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2367 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2368 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2373 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2379 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2385 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2388 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2389 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2390 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2391 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2392 associated -dbg packages.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2399 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2403 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2406 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2410 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2413 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2417 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2420 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2428 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2435 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2443 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2447 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2451 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2452 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2453 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2454 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2455 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2456 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2457 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2458 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2459 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2460 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2467 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2475 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2476 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2480 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2483 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2484 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2492 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2496 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2499 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2506 out section number. Closes: #204731
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2529 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2532 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2533 removal. Closes: #204286
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2540 renaming. Closes: #203548
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2547 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2548 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2564 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2570 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2573 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2574 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2575 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2582 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2583 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2603 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2611 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2618 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2620 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2621 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2625 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2628 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2636 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2646 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2648 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2655 it break hard links (see #188663).
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2662 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2666 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2672 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2676 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2677 debconf-mergetemplates
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2681 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2684 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2688 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2691 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2698 * Update debhelper(1).
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2702 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2705 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2706 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2707 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2708 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2709 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2713 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2716 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2717 the shell. Closes: #178524
2718 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2725 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2732 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2739 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2740 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2741 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2742 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2750 files from installation.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2754 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2757 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2758 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2762 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2765 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2769 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2772 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2776 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2782 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2792 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2793 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2795 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2802 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2803 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2804 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2805 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2809 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2812 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2816 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2819 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2820 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2824 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2828 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2839 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2843 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2844 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2845 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2850 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2853 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2854 practice. Closes: #163303
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2858 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2871 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2874 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2876 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2877 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2878 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2879 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2880 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2887 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2908 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2925 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2931 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2938 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2941 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2942 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2943 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2944 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2949 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2962 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2965 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2966 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2973 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2974 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2975 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2976 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2977 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2981 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2984 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2986 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2994 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2998 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3001 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3002 right thing. Closes: #150644
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3006 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Stupid, evil typo.
3009 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3023 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3024 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3038 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3045 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3046 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3051 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3054 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3067 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3068 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3072 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3078 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Removing perl warning message.
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3084 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3087 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3088 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3089 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3090 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3091 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3092 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3093 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3094 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3104 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3111 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3114 debconf-mergetemplate.
3115 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3116 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3120 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3123 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3124 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3125 dh_install, which ...
3126 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3127 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3128 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3129 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3130 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3131 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3132 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3133 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3134 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3135 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3136 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3137 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3138 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3139 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3140 other minor changes.
3141 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3142 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3143 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3144 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3145 course there's -X ..)
3146 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3147 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3148 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3150 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3151 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3152 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3153 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3154 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3159 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3165 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3168 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3172 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3178 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3184 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3190 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3196 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3199 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3200 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3201 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3202 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3204 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3205 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3215 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3218 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3222 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3225 upset. Closes: #131322
3227 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3229 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3232 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3233 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3234 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3235 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3236 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3237 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3238 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3239 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3240 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3241 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3242 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3243 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3244 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3245 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3246 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3248 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3255 - Better indenting of generated code.
3256 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3264 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3265 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3266 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3267 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3268 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3269 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3270 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3274 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3277 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3281 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3284 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3285 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3286 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3287 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3288 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3289 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3290 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3291 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3292 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3293 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3294 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3295 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3296 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3297 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3298 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3303 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3309 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3312 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3313 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3317 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3320 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3321 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3325 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3331 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3334 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3335 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3336 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3337 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3338 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3349 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3352 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3356 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3359 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3364 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3370 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3373 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3377 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3383 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3387 Also some indentation fixes.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3391 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3394 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3395 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3396 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3397 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3398 Closes: #106514, #85520
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3402 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3408 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3426 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3435 change it in debhelper v4..
3437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3439 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3441 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3445 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3448 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3452 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3455 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3459 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3465 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3468 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3469 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3470 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3471 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3472 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3473 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3474 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3475 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3476 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3477 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3478 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3479 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3483 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3486 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3490 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3497 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3500 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3501 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3502 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3503 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3504 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3505 program those options go to. So, for example,
3506 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3507 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3508 something complex. Closes: #89311
3509 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3513 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3516 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3517 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3518 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3522 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3525 through loop. Closes: #98598
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3529 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Missing semi-colon.
3532 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3533 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3537 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3540 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3541 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3542 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3546 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3549 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3550 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3554 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3557 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3561 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3564 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3565 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3572 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3573 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3574 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3578 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3581 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3582 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3583 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3587 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3590 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3594 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3600 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3606 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3612 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3618 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3621 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3625 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3628 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3629 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3630 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3631 followed. Closes: #85483
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3635 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3637 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3638 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3639 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3643 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3646 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3647 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3648 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3649 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3650 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3651 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3652 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3653 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3654 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3655 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3656 Closes: #88464, #77743
3657 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3658 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3659 us to deal with that gracefully.
3660 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3662 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3663 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3664 a while, Closes: #51225
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3668 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3674 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3677 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3681 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3685 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3690 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3693 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3694 don't make packlist files.
3695 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3696 debhelper coding standards.
3697 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3698 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3702 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3705 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3709 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3712 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3713 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3714 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3715 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3716 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3717 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3718 but is mildly deprecated.
3719 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3720 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3721 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3722 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3723 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3724 switching to statoverrides..
3725 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3726 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3727 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3728 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3729 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3730 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3732 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3733 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3734 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3735 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3736 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3737 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3738 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3739 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3740 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3742 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3743 variable names, pod man pages).
3744 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3745 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3746 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3747 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3748 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3749 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3750 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3760 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3770 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3774 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3776 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3777 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3778 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3782 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3784 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3785 they were previously ignored.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3791 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3792 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3798 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3799 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3800 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3806 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3810 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3812 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3813 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3817 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3819 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3820 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3821 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3822 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3823 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3824 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3825 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3826 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3827 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3828 it is an obsolete program.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3832 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3834 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3842 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3848 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3852 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3854 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3864 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * typo: Closes, #78567
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3870 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3882 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3885 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3886 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3887 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3888 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3889 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3896 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3904 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3905 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3906 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3907 backwards-compatibility.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3914 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3915 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3916 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3917 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3918 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3919 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3921 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3922 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3923 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3925 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3927 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3928 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3929 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3930 should now be raised to severity important..
3931 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3932 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3939 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3969 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3972 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3973 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3974 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3975 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3988 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3989 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3990 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3991 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3992 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3993 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4001 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4005 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4007 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4011 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4014 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4019 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4022 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4023 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4024 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4025 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4033 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4036 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4039 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4040 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4043 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4045 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4046 the TODO entry about it.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4050 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4057 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4059 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4060 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4061 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4065 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4068 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4069 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4070 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4071 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4091 (this appears to be logal).
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4098 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4099 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4100 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4101 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4114 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4115 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4116 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4117 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4121 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4130 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4141 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4144 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4145 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4146 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4151 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4167 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4168 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4169 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4170 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4171 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4172 notice until v2 is complete.
4173 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4174 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4175 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4176 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4177 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4178 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4180 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4181 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4182 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4183 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4203 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4207 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4214 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4217 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4218 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4219 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4220 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4228 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4229 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4230 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4238 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4239 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4246 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4253 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4257 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4267 depend on the build and install targets.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4274 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4291 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4297 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4300 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4301 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4302 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4303 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4304 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4305 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4307 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4308 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4309 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4310 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4311 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4312 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4313 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4317 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4332 right place. Closes: #55065
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4343 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4346 * Copyright date updates.
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4350 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4353 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4364 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4371 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4383 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4392 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4393 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4394 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4395 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4396 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4397 bits until all files have been registered.
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4401 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_installmanpages:
4404 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4405 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4406 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4407 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4408 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4409 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4410 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4411 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4412 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4413 otherwise change the result at all.
4415 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4416 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4417 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4418 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4419 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4433 act on files that don't exist.
4434 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4435 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4436 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4438 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4439 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4440 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4441 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4445 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4451 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4460 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4467 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4469 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4470 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4471 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4475 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4478 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4479 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4480 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4481 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4482 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4483 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4484 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4486 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4488 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4492 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4499 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4505 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4514 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4530 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4533 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4534 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4535 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4536 I made some changes, though:
4537 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4538 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4539 that is a clear violation of policy.
4540 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4541 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4542 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4543 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4544 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4545 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4546 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4547 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4548 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4550 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4560 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4562 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4563 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4570 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4571 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4592 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4593 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4594 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4595 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4596 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4597 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4598 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4602 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4608 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4610 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4612 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4613 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4617 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4626 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4630 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4633 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4634 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4640 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4645 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4649 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4656 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4657 for the dependancies to be generated.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4664 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4671 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4672 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4673 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4678 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4681 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4682 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4686 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4692 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4698 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4701 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4705 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4711 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4714 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4715 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4716 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4717 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4718 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4719 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4720 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4721 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4722 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4723 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4724 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4725 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4729 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4732 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4733 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4735 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4736 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4737 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4738 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4739 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4740 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4742 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4743 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4750 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4754 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4764 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4769 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4771 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4772 for building debhelper.
4773 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4787 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4794 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4795 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4796 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4797 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4798 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4799 it's always available.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4806 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4807 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4808 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4812 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4814 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4815 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4816 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4829 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4833 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4839 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4842 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4843 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4844 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4848 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4851 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4856 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4859 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4860 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4862 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4863 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4882 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4886 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4889 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4890 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4892 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4899 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4900 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4901 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4905 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4908 things if CDPATH is set.
4910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4912 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4914 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4918 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4921 seems to make sense for the transition.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4928 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4933 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4936 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4937 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4944 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4951 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4952 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4953 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4954 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4958 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4967 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4968 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4969 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4970 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4971 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4972 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4973 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4974 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4975 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4976 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4981 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4984 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4985 * README: mention doc/v2
4986 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4987 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4991 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4993 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4994 be using this script RSN.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4998 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5001 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5002 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5003 more than 1 init script.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5010 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Changed perl version detection.
5017 * Changed call to find.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5024 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5026 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5031 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * Really include dh_installpam.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5037 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5040 * Wrote man page for same.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5047 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5048 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5053 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5063 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5064 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5065 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5066 x bit was being set!
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5073 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5074 well. (Closes: 38900)
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5081 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5082 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5086 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5108 help from Julian Gilbey.
5109 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5110 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5111 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5112 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5113 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5114 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5115 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5145 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5148 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5152 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5155 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5159 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5162 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5166 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5175 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5185 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5187 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5191 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5194 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5195 may be deleted. (#35845)
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5199 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Various man page enhancements.
5202 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5207 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5210 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5211 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5215 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5218 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5219 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5220 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5222 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5223 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5234 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * Another very minor typo fix.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * Very minor typo fix.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5246 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5249 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5250 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5260 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5262 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5263 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5264 variables properly (#34850).
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5268 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5277 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5278 (automatically generated by build process).
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5284 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5291 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5292 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5294 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5301 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * README: minor typo fix.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5314 leave it at that. :-)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5318 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5333 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5334 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5335 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5339 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5342 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5346 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5348 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5349 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5356 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5357 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5358 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5359 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5363 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5365 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5366 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5367 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5368 Craig Small for spotting this.
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5372 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5375 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5376 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5389 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5393 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5395 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5396 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5397 working on the last version of debhelper.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5404 being made. (#23255)
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5408 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5417 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5421 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5424 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5425 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5426 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5427 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5434 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5435 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5436 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5437 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5439 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5440 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5442 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5447 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5449 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5453 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5462 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5463 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5464 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5465 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5466 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5467 suidregister actually supports it.
5468 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5469 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5473 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5480 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5483 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5484 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5485 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5486 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5487 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5488 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5489 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5493 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5495 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5496 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5500 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5503 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5504 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5505 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5506 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5513 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5515 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5516 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5517 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5518 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5519 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5520 effect, either. (#30118)
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5524 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5530 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5533 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5534 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5538 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5540 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5547 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5548 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5549 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5550 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5554 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5557 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5558 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5568 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5570 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5571 packages, painlessly.
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5575 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5581 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5583 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5593 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * The perl conversion is complete.
5597 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5599 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5600 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5601 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5609 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5610 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5611 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5618 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5620 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5622 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5623 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5630 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5631 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5641 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5644 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5645 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5646 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5647 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5648 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5652 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5655 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5656 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5657 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5658 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5662 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5665 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5669 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5672 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5673 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5674 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5675 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5676 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5677 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5678 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5679 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5683 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5685 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5689 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5692 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5693 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5694 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5699 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5702 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5706 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5709 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5713 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5716 sections of shared libraries.
5717 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5718 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5719 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5720 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5721 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5722 things you don't want them to.
5723 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5724 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5728 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5731 shared libraries. (#26414)
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5735 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5737 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5738 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5739 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5740 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5744 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5748 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5750 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5751 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5752 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5753 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5754 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5758 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5761 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5765 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5767 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5768 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5769 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5774 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5776 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5777 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5784 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5785 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5786 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5787 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5788 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5790 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5791 remove debian/files properly.
5792 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5793 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5794 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5795 * Removed bogus menu file.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5802 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5806 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5808 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5809 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5810 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5811 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5812 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5813 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5814 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5818 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5821 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5822 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5823 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5824 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5828 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5835 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5838 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5839 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5841 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5842 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5843 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5844 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5845 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5846 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5853 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5854 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5855 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5856 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5857 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5858 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5859 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5860 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5861 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5862 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5863 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5864 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5865 passed any switches.
5866 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5870 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5873 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5874 at all for a long while.
5875 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5876 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5877 large chunks in the process.
5878 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5879 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5880 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5885 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5888 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5890 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5895 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5897 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5898 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5899 that don't always have the same files in them.
5900 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5901 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5902 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5906 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5910 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5911 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5912 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5913 updating 27 man pages.
5914 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5915 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5916 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5917 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5918 programs act on. (#25247)
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5922 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5926 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5927 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5928 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5929 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5930 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5931 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5936 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5943 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5950 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5953 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5957 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5963 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5966 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5967 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5968 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5969 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5970 package by accident.
5971 * Is version 1.0 next?
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5975 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5978 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5979 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5983 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5985 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5986 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5987 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5988 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5989 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5990 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5992 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5997 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6000 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6001 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6005 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6008 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6012 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6015 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6016 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6021 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6023 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6027 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6030 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6031 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6036 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6042 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6045 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6046 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6047 past week. Thanks, guys!
6049 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6050 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6051 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6052 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6053 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6054 would do in the same situation.
6055 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6056 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6058 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6060 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6061 permissions changed.
6062 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6063 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6064 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6065 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6066 files are treated identically.
6067 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6068 * Minor man page fixes.
6069 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6070 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6071 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6075 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6078 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6079 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6080 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6081 use -X multiple times, too.
6082 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6083 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6087 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6090 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6091 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6095 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6098 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6102 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6105 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6106 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6107 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6108 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6109 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6110 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6111 shape if you're starting a new package.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6115 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6118 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6122 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6124 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6125 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6126 because of missing symlinks.
6128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6130 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6132 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6136 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6139 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6140 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6141 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6142 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6143 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6145 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6146 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6150 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6152 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6153 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6154 to be changed after the fact :-)
6155 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6162 no version string after the -V.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6166 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6168 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6169 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6174 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6176 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6177 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6181 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6183 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6184 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6185 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6186 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6187 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6188 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6189 I always welcome corrections!
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6199 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6202 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6203 * Documented this new switch.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6207 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6210 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6211 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6212 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6213 no packages use the old behavior.
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6217 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6220 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6221 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6228 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6238 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6240 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6241 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6245 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6248 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6249 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6250 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6254 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6260 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6263 into the source package by accident.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6270 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6271 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6272 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6273 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6274 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6275 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6280 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6284 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6285 inspired to implement some of it.
6286 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6290 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6293 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6297 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6300 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6301 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6305 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6308 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6309 have done.) (#17598)
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6313 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6319 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6325 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6327 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6328 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6332 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6335 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6336 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6340 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6342 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6343 argument processor in perl.
6344 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6345 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6346 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6347 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6351 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6353 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6354 type directories. (#16933)
6355 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6356 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6357 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6358 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6359 are supported. (#16935)
6360 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6365 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6367 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6368 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6372 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6376 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6377 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6378 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6379 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6380 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6381 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6385 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6388 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6389 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6391 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6392 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6393 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6394 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6395 a given package, or -i or -a.
6396 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6397 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6398 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6399 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6400 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6401 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6402 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6403 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6404 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6406 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6407 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6408 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6412 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6415 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6416 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6421 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6423 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6424 does not have a section.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6428 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6431 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6432 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6433 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * Fixed typo #16215.
6441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6443 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6445 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6446 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6447 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6448 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6449 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6450 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6458 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6459 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6460 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6465 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6467 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6471 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6480 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6481 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6482 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6483 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6484 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6485 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6495 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6497 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6498 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6502 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6504 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6505 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6506 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6507 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6514 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6524 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6527 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6534 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6538 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6540 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6544 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6546 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6547 postinst, postrm, etc.
6549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6551 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6553 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6560 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6561 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6562 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6563 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6564 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6568 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6570 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6571 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6572 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6576 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6578 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6579 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6583 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6585 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6586 installing package files into.
6587 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6592 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6594 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6596 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6600 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6606 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6609 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6613 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6616 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6617 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6618 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6619 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6623 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6625 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6626 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6627 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6628 multiple binary packages.
6629 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6630 should rebuild them with this version.
6631 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6635 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6638 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6642 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6645 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6649 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6651 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6652 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6653 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6654 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6655 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6656 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6657 debian/README.debian.
6658 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6659 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6660 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6661 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6662 in a few situations.)
6664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6666 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6668 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6672 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6678 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6681 * Fixed several man pages.
6683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6685 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6687 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6688 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6689 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6693 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6695 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6696 is ready for general use.
6697 * Added man pages for all commands.
6698 * Multiple binary package support.
6699 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6700 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6701 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6703 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6704 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6705 auto-installed as parameters.
6706 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6708 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6711 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6712 the package build directory it is to act on.
6713 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6714 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6715 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6719 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6721 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6722 ready to replace debstd.
6724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400