1 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
4 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
8 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
11 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
15 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
18 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
19 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
20 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
21 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
22 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
23 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
27 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
30 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
31 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
32 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
34 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
37 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
38 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
39 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
40 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
41 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
42 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
46 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
53 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
55 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
59 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
62 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
66 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
69 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
74 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
78 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
79 installed. Closes: #342033
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
83 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
86 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
87 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
88 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
93 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
99 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
105 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
109 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
110 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
111 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
115 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
118 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
123 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
130 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
136 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
138 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
139 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
140 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
141 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
142 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
143 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
144 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
145 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
147 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
151 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
154 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
155 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
159 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
162 in standard man dirs.
163 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
167 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
173 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
176 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
181 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
188 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
195 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
197 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
198 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
199 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
203 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
205 * NMU with maintainer approval.
206 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
207 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
208 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
210 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
212 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
218 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
224 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
227 mode. Closes: #324161
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
231 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
234 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
235 behavior change. Closes: #249815
236 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
237 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
242 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
245 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
246 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
247 is necesary for sanity.
248 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
249 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
254 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
256 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
257 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
261 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
263 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
264 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
268 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
274 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
277 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
278 released, so use at your own risk.
279 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
280 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
282 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
283 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
284 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
285 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
286 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
287 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
288 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
289 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
290 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
291 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
292 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
293 including twice per config file line now..
294 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
295 and simplfy the rules file.
296 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
297 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
298 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
300 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
301 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
305 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
307 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
308 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
312 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
315 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
319 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
321 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
322 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
326 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
329 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
330 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
331 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
332 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
333 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
334 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
338 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
341 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
342 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
343 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
348 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
351 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
352 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
357 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
360 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
361 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
362 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
367 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
369 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
370 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
371 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
372 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
376 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
382 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
389 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
392 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
393 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
394 unknown. Closes: #282924
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
398 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
405 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Spanish man page updates.
408 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
413 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
415 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
419 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
422 * dh_desktop: reindent
423 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
424 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
428 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
434 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
436 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
440 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
442 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
446 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
449 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
450 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
454 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
460 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
466 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
473 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
476 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
480 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
483 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
484 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
485 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
486 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
487 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
488 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
490 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
491 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
492 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
493 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
494 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
495 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
496 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
497 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
498 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
499 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
500 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
501 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
502 in the others, and added a few new tests.
503 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
504 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
505 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
509 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
516 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
519 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
523 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
526 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
530 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
533 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
537 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
540 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
544 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
550 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
556 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
562 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
565 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
566 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
567 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
571 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
574 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
578 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
581 but occasionally right and necessary.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
585 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
588 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
589 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
590 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
591 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
592 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
596 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
599 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
601 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
602 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
603 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
604 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
605 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
606 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
607 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
608 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
609 postinst scripts for udebs.
610 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
614 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
617 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
619 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
620 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
624 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
630 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
637 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
644 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
647 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
651 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
654 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
658 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
661 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
664 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
665 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
669 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
675 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
678 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
682 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
685 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
686 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
687 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
689 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
691 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
692 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
693 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
697 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
700 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
705 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
708 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
709 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
710 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
715 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
721 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
727 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
730 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
731 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
732 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
733 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
734 associated -dbg packages.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
738 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
741 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
745 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
748 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
752 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
755 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
759 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
762 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
767 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Typo. Closes: #207999
770 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
774 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
776 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
777 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
782 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
785 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
789 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
793 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
794 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
795 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
796 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
797 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
798 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
799 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
800 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
801 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
802 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
806 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
809 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
814 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
817 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
818 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
822 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
825 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
826 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
831 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
834 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
838 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
841 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
845 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
848 out section number. Closes: #204731
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
852 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
859 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
865 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
871 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Typo, Closes: #203907
874 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
875 removal. Closes: #204286
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
879 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
882 renaming. Closes: #203548
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
886 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
889 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
890 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
894 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
900 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
906 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
912 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
915 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
916 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
917 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
921 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
924 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
925 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
929 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
931 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
935 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
942 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
944 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
945 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
950 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
953 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
957 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
960 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
962 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
963 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
967 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
970 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
975 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
978 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
982 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
988 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
990 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
994 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
997 it break hard links (see #188663).
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1004 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1014 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1018 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1019 debconf-mergetemplates
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1023 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1026 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1030 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1033 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1037 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1040 * Update debhelper(1).
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1044 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1047 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1048 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1049 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1050 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1051 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1055 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1058 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1059 the shell. Closes: #178524
1060 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1064 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1067 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1071 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1074 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1078 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1081 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1082 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1083 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1084 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1089 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1092 files from installation.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1096 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1099 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1100 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1104 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1107 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1111 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1114 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1118 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1124 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1130 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1134 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1135 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1137 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1141 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1144 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1145 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1146 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1147 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1151 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1154 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1158 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1161 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1162 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1166 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1170 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1181 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1185 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1186 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1187 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1192 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1195 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1196 practice. Closes: #163303
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1200 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1206 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1213 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1216 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1218 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1219 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1220 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1221 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1222 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1229 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1240 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1247 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1250 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1255 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1261 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1267 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1273 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1283 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1284 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1285 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1286 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1304 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1307 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1308 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1312 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1315 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1316 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1317 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1318 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1319 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1323 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1326 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1328 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1336 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1340 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1343 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1344 right thing. Closes: #150644
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1348 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Stupid, evil typo.
1351 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1355 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1365 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1366 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1377 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1380 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1384 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1387 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1388 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1393 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1396 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1400 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1406 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1409 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1410 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1414 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1420 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Removing perl warning message.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1426 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1429 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1430 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1431 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1432 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1433 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1434 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1435 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1436 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1446 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1456 debconf-mergetemplate.
1457 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1458 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1462 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1465 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1466 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1467 dh_install, which ...
1468 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1469 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1470 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1471 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1472 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1473 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1474 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1475 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1476 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1477 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1478 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1479 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1480 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1481 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1482 other minor changes.
1483 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1484 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1485 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1486 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1487 course there's -X ..)
1488 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1489 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1490 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1492 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1493 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1494 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1495 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1496 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1501 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1507 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1510 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1514 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1520 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1526 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1532 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1538 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1541 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1542 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1543 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1544 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1546 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1547 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1551 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1557 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1560 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1564 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1567 upset. Closes: #131322
1569 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1571 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1574 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1575 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1576 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1577 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1578 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1579 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1580 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1581 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1582 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1583 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1584 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1585 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1586 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1587 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1588 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1590 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1594 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1597 - Better indenting of generated code.
1598 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1602 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1606 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1607 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1608 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1609 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1610 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1611 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1612 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1616 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1619 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1623 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1626 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1627 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1628 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1629 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1630 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1631 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1632 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1633 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1634 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1635 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1636 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1637 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1638 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1639 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1640 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1645 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1651 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1654 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1655 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1659 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1662 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1663 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1667 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1673 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1676 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1677 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1678 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1679 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1680 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1685 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1691 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1694 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1698 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1701 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1706 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1712 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1715 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1719 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1725 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1729 Also some indentation fixes.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1733 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1736 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1737 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1738 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1739 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1740 Closes: #106514, #85520
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1744 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1750 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1756 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1762 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1768 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1774 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1777 change it in debhelper v4..
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1781 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1787 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1790 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1794 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1797 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1801 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1807 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1810 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1811 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1812 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1813 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1814 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1815 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1816 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1817 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1818 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1819 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1820 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1821 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1825 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1828 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1832 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1839 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1842 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1843 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1844 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1845 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1846 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1847 program those options go to. So, for example,
1848 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1849 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1850 something complex. Closes: #89311
1851 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1855 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1858 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1859 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1860 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1864 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1867 through loop. Closes: #98598
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1871 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Missing semi-colon.
1874 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1875 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1879 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1882 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1883 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1884 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1888 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1891 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1892 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1896 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1899 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1903 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1906 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1907 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1911 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1914 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1915 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1916 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1920 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1923 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1924 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1925 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1929 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1932 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1936 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1942 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1948 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1954 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1960 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1963 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1967 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1970 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1971 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1972 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1973 followed. Closes: #85483
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1977 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1979 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1980 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1981 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1985 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1988 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1989 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1990 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1991 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1992 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1993 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1994 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1995 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1996 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1997 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1998 Closes: #88464, #77743
1999 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2000 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2001 us to deal with that gracefully.
2002 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2004 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2005 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2006 a while, Closes: #51225
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2010 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2016 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2019 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2023 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2027 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2032 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2035 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2036 don't make packlist files.
2037 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2038 debhelper coding standards.
2039 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2040 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2044 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2047 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2051 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2054 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2055 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2056 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2057 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2058 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2059 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2060 but is mildly deprecated.
2061 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2062 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2063 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2064 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2065 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2066 switching to statoverrides..
2067 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2068 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2069 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2070 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2071 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2072 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2074 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2075 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2076 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2077 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2078 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2079 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2080 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2081 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2082 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2084 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2085 variable names, pod man pages).
2086 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2087 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2088 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2089 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2090 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2091 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2092 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2096 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2102 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2109 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2112 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2116 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2118 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2119 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2120 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2126 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2127 they were previously ignored.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2131 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2133 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2134 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2138 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2140 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2141 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2142 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2146 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2148 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2152 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2154 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2155 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2159 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2161 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2162 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2163 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2164 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2165 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2166 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2167 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2168 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2169 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2170 it is an obsolete program.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2174 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2176 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2180 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2184 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2186 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2190 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2192 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2194 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2196 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2200 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2206 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * typo: Closes, #78567
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2212 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2218 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2224 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2227 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2228 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2229 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2230 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2231 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2235 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2238 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2243 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2246 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2247 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2248 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2249 backwards-compatability.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2253 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2256 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2257 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2258 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2259 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2260 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2261 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2263 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2264 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2265 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2267 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2269 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2270 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2271 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2272 should now be raised to severity important..
2273 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2274 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2278 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2281 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2286 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2292 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2298 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2304 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2311 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2314 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2315 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2316 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2317 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2321 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2327 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2330 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2331 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2332 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2333 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2334 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2335 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2340 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2343 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2347 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2353 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2356 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2361 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2364 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2365 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2366 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2367 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2375 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2378 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2381 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2382 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2385 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2387 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2388 the TODO entry about it.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2392 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2399 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2402 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2403 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2407 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2410 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2411 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2412 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2413 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2433 (this appears to be logal).
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2437 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2440 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2441 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2442 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2443 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2447 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2456 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2457 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2458 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2459 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2463 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2469 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2472 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2476 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2483 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2486 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2487 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2488 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2493 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2500 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2506 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2509 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2510 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2511 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2512 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2513 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2514 notice until v2 is complete.
2515 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2516 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2517 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2518 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2519 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2520 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2522 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2523 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2524 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2525 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2529 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2535 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2545 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2556 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2559 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2560 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2561 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2562 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2567 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2570 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2571 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2572 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2577 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2580 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2581 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2588 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2592 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2595 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2599 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2606 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2609 depend on the build and install targets.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2613 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2616 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2620 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2627 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2633 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2639 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2642 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2643 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2644 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2645 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2646 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2647 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2649 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2650 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2651 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2652 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2653 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2654 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2655 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2659 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2665 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2671 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2674 right place. Closes: #55065
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2678 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2685 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2688 * Copyright date updates.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2692 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2695 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2700 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2706 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2713 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2719 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2725 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2731 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2734 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2735 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2736 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2737 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2738 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2739 bits until all files have been registered.
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2743 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_installmanpages:
2746 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2747 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2748 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2749 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2750 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2751 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2752 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2753 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2754 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2755 otherwise change the result at all.
2757 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2758 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2759 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2760 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2761 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2766 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2772 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2775 act on files that don't exist.
2776 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2777 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2778 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2780 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2781 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2782 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2783 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2787 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2793 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2799 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2802 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2806 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2809 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2811 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2812 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2813 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2817 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2820 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2821 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2822 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2823 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2824 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2825 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2826 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2828 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2830 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2834 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2841 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2847 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2853 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2856 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2860 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2866 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2872 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2875 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2876 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2877 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2878 I made some changes, though:
2879 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2880 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2881 that is a clear violation of policy.
2882 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2883 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2884 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2885 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2886 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2887 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2888 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2889 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2890 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2892 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2896 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2902 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2905 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2909 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2912 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2913 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2918 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2924 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2931 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2934 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2935 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2936 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2937 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2938 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2939 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2940 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2944 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2950 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2954 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2955 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2959 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2965 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2968 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2972 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2975 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2976 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2980 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2982 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2987 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2991 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2995 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2998 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2999 for the dependancies to be generated.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3003 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3006 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3010 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3013 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3014 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3015 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3020 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3023 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3024 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3028 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3034 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3040 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3043 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3047 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3053 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3056 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3057 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3058 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3059 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3060 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3061 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3062 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3063 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3064 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3065 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3066 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3067 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3071 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3074 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3075 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3077 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3078 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3079 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3080 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3081 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3082 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3084 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3085 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3089 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3092 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3096 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3103 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3106 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3111 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3114 for building debhelper.
3115 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3119 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3126 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3129 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3133 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3136 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3137 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3138 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3139 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3140 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3141 it's always available.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3145 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3148 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3149 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3150 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3157 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3158 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3162 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3168 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3171 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3175 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3181 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3184 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3185 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3186 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3190 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3193 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3198 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3201 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3202 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3204 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3205 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3209 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3215 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3221 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3224 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3228 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3231 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3232 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3234 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3238 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3241 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3242 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3243 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3247 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3250 things if CDPATH is set.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3254 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3260 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3263 seems to make sense for the transition.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3270 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3275 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3278 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3279 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3283 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3286 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3290 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3293 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3294 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3295 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3296 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3300 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3306 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3309 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3310 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3311 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3312 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3313 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3314 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3315 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3316 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3317 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3318 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3323 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3326 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3327 * README: mention doc/v2
3328 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3329 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3333 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3335 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3336 be using this script RSN.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3340 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3343 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3344 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3345 more than 1 init script.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3349 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3352 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3356 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Changed perl version detection.
3359 * Changed call to find.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3363 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3366 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3368 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3373 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Really include dh_installpam.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3379 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3382 * Wrote man page for same.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3386 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3389 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3390 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3395 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3402 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3405 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3406 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3407 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3408 x bit was being set!
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3415 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3416 well. (Closes: 38900)
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3420 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3423 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3424 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3428 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3434 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3441 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3447 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3450 help from Julian Gilbey.
3451 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3452 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3453 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3454 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3455 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3456 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3457 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3462 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3468 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3475 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3481 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3487 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3490 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3494 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3497 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3501 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3504 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3508 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3514 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3517 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3521 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3527 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3533 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3536 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3537 may be deleted. (#35845)
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3541 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Various man page enhancements.
3544 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3549 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3552 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3553 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3557 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3560 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3561 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3562 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3564 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3565 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3570 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3576 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Another very minor typo fix.
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3582 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * Very minor typo fix.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3588 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3591 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3592 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3596 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3602 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3605 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3606 variables properly (#34850).
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3610 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3616 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3619 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3620 (automatically generated by build process).
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3624 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3626 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3630 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3632 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3633 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3634 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3636 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3640 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3643 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3647 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * README: minor typo fix.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3653 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3656 leave it at that. :-)
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3660 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3666 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3672 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3675 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3676 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3677 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3681 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3684 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3688 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3691 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3695 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3698 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3699 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3700 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3701 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3705 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3708 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3709 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3710 Craig Small for spotting this.
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3714 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3717 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3718 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3722 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3728 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3731 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3735 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3737 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3738 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3739 working on the last version of debhelper.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3743 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3746 being made. (#23255)
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3750 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3756 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3759 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3763 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3766 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3767 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3768 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3769 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3773 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3776 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3777 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3778 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3779 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3781 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3782 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3784 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3789 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3795 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3801 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3804 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3805 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3806 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3807 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3808 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3809 suidregister actually supports it.
3810 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3811 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3815 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3822 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3825 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3826 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3827 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3828 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3829 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3830 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3831 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3835 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3837 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3838 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3842 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3845 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3846 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3847 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3848 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3852 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3855 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3857 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3858 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3859 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3860 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3861 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3862 effect, either. (#30118)
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3866 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3872 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3875 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3876 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3880 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3886 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3889 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3890 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3891 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3892 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3896 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3899 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3900 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3904 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3910 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3913 packages, painlessly.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3917 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3923 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3929 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3935 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * The perl conversion is complete.
3939 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3941 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3942 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3943 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3948 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3951 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3952 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3953 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3957 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3960 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3962 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3964 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3965 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3969 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3972 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3973 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3977 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3983 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3986 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3987 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3988 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3989 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3990 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3994 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3997 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3998 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3999 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4000 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4004 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4006 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4007 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4011 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4014 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4015 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4016 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4017 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4018 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4019 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4020 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4021 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4025 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4034 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4035 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4036 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4041 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4044 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4048 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4051 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4055 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4058 sections of shared libraries.
4059 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4060 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4061 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4062 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4063 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4064 things you don't want them to.
4065 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4066 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4070 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4073 shared libraries. (#26414)
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4077 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4079 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4080 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4081 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4082 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4086 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4090 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4092 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4093 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4094 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4095 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4096 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4100 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4102 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4103 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4107 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4110 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4111 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4116 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4119 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4123 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4126 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4127 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4128 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4129 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4130 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4132 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4133 remove debian/files properly.
4134 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4135 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4136 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4137 * Removed bogus menu file.
4139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4141 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4143 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4144 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4148 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4150 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4151 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4152 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4153 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4154 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4155 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4156 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4163 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4164 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4165 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4166 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4170 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4177 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4180 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4181 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4183 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4184 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4185 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4186 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4187 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4188 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4192 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4195 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4196 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4197 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4198 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4199 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4200 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4201 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4202 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4203 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4204 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4205 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4206 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4207 passed any switches.
4208 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4212 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4215 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4216 at all for a long while.
4217 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4218 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4219 large chunks in the process.
4220 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4221 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4222 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4227 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4230 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4232 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4237 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4240 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4241 that don't always have the same files in them.
4242 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4243 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4244 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4252 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4253 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4254 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4255 updating 27 man pages.
4256 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4257 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4258 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4259 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4260 programs act on. (#25247)
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4264 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4268 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4269 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4270 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4271 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4272 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4273 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4278 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4285 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4292 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4295 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4299 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4305 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4308 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4309 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4310 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4311 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4312 package by accident.
4313 * Is version 1.0 next?
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4317 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4320 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4321 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4325 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4328 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4329 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4330 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4331 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4332 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4334 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4339 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4341 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4342 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4343 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4347 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4350 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4354 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4357 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4358 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4363 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4369 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4372 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4373 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4378 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4384 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4387 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4388 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4389 past week. Thanks, guys!
4391 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4392 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4393 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4394 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4395 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4396 would do in the same situation.
4397 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4398 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4400 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4402 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4403 permissions changed.
4404 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4405 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4406 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4407 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4408 files are treated identically.
4409 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4410 * Minor man page fixes.
4411 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4412 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4413 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4417 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4420 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4421 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4422 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4423 use -X multiple times, too.
4424 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4425 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4429 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4432 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4433 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4437 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4440 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4444 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4446 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4447 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4448 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4449 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4450 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4451 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4452 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4453 shape if you're starting a new package.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4457 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4460 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4464 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4467 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4468 because of missing symlinks.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4472 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4478 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4481 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4482 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4483 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4484 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4485 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4487 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4488 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4492 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4494 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4495 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4496 to be changed after the fact :-)
4497 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4501 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4504 no version string after the -V.
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4508 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4510 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4511 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4516 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4518 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4519 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4523 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4525 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4526 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4527 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4528 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4529 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4530 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4531 I always welcome corrections!
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4535 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4541 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4544 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4545 * Documented this new switch.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4549 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4552 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4553 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4554 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4555 no packages use the old behavior.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4559 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4562 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4563 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4567 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4570 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4574 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4580 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4583 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4587 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4590 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4591 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4592 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4596 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4602 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4604 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4605 into the source package by accident.
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4609 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4612 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4613 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4614 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4615 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4616 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4617 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4622 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4624 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4626 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4627 inspired to implement some of it.
4628 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4632 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4634 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4635 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4639 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4642 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4643 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4647 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4650 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4651 have done.) (#17598)
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4655 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4661 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4667 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4670 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4674 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4677 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4678 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4682 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4685 argument processor in perl.
4686 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4687 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4688 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4689 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4693 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4696 type directories. (#16933)
4697 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4698 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4699 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4700 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4701 are supported. (#16935)
4702 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4707 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4710 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4714 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4718 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4719 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4720 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4721 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4722 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4723 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4727 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4730 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4731 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4733 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4734 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4735 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4736 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4737 a given package, or -i or -a.
4738 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4739 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4740 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4741 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4742 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4743 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4744 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4745 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4746 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4748 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4749 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4750 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4754 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4757 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4758 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4763 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4766 does not have a section.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4770 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4773 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4774 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4775 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4779 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * Fixed typo #16215.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4785 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4788 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4789 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4790 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4791 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4792 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4797 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4800 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4801 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4802 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4807 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4813 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4819 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4822 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4823 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4824 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4825 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4826 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4827 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4831 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4837 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4840 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4844 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4847 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4848 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4849 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4853 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4856 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4860 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4866 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4869 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4873 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4876 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4880 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4886 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4889 postinst, postrm, etc.
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4893 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4899 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4902 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4903 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4904 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4905 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4906 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4910 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4913 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4914 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4918 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4920 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4921 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4925 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4928 installing package files into.
4929 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4934 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4938 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4942 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4948 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4951 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4955 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4958 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4959 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4960 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4961 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4965 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4967 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4968 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4969 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4970 multiple binary packages.
4971 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4972 should rebuild them with this version.
4973 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4977 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4980 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4984 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4987 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4991 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4993 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4994 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4995 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4996 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4997 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4998 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4999 debian/README.debian.
5000 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5001 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5002 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5003 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5004 in a few situations.)
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5008 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5014 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5020 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5023 * Fixed several man pages.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5027 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5030 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5031 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5035 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5038 is ready for general use.
5039 * Added man pages for all commands.
5040 * Multiple binary package support.
5041 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5042 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5043 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5045 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5046 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5047 auto-installed as parameters.
5048 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5050 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5053 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5054 the package build directory it is to act on.
5055 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5056 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5057 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5061 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5063 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5064 ready to replace debstd.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400