1 debhelper (7.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
17 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
18 (genesis) still uses them.
19 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
20 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
21 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
22 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
23 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
24 commands. (See #570039)
25 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
26 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
27 * dh_installchangelogs: Also look for changelog files in doc(s)
28 subdirectories. Closes: #521258
29 * In v8 mode, debhelper only ever acts on packages that can be built
30 for the given architecture, even if -N or -p are used to specify
31 packages specific to other architectures.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
35 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
39 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
40 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
41 in control file or debhelper config files.
42 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
46 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
49 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
50 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
54 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
57 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
61 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
64 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
65 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
69 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Updated French translation.
72 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
73 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
74 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
75 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
77 * Typo. Closes: #571968
78 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
79 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
80 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
81 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
82 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
83 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
84 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
85 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
86 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
88 * dh: Improve documentation.
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
92 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
94 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
95 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
96 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
100 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
103 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
107 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
110 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
114 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
117 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
118 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
119 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
120 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
121 options that they do not support.
122 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
123 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
124 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
125 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
126 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
127 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
132 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
136 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
137 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
138 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
139 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
140 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
141 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
142 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
143 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
144 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
148 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
151 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
152 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
153 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
154 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
158 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Typo. Closes: #558654
161 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
162 installed. Closes: #558782
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
166 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
169 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
170 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
171 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
172 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
173 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
177 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
179 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
180 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
181 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
182 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
186 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
189 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
190 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
194 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
196 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
200 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
202 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
203 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
204 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
205 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
206 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
207 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
208 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
209 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
210 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
211 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
212 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
213 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
214 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
215 time soon.) Closes: #554509
216 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
218 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
219 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
220 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
221 document id. Closes: #555677
222 * Typo. Closes: #555659
223 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
224 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
225 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
226 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
228 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
229 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
230 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
235 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
238 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
239 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
240 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
241 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
242 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
243 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
244 translation (#494300 part 2)
247 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
249 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
250 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
251 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
252 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
253 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
257 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
260 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
261 (It was only run once due to logging.)
262 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
263 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
264 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
265 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
266 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
267 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
268 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
269 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
270 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
271 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
275 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
279 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
282 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
283 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
287 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
290 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
291 flag with arch all/any packages.
292 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
293 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
294 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
295 situation. Closes: #540794
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
299 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
303 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
304 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
305 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
306 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
307 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
310 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
311 the default. Closes: #538201
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
316 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
320 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
321 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
322 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
323 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
324 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
326 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
327 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
328 * Above Closes: #491117
329 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
334 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
340 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
341 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
342 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
346 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
349 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
350 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
351 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
352 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
353 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
358 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
361 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
362 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
366 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
368 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
372 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
374 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
375 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
377 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
378 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
379 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
383 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
385 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
386 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
390 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
396 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
398 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
399 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
400 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
405 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
407 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
411 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
414 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
415 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
416 created by using `python' first during build and install.
418 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
423 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
425 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
429 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
431 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
432 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
436 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
438 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
442 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
444 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
448 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
450 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
451 contributed by Modestas Vainius
452 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
453 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
454 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
455 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
456 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
457 that support it. Closes: #480577
458 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
459 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
460 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
462 - Adds support for cmake.
463 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
464 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
466 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
468 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
469 that use them. The options are:
470 --sourcedir, --destdir
471 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
472 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
473 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
474 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
475 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
479 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
485 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
488 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
489 default. Closes: #537140
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
493 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
496 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
497 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
501 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
504 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
511 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
515 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
518 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
520 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
521 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
522 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
526 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
529 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
530 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
531 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
538 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
539 warning or deprecation message.
540 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
541 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
542 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
543 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
544 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
545 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
546 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
547 Closes: #534639, #357434
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
551 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
557 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
559 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
560 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
561 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
562 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
563 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
565 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
566 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
567 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
571 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
584 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
587 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
591 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
595 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
596 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
598 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
599 file support. Closes: #494914
600 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
604 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
607 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
608 parameters. Closes: #527256
609 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
610 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
611 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
615 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
619 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
620 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
621 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
625 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
628 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
629 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
630 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
634 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
637 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
638 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
640 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
641 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
642 by triggers). Closes: #521181
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
646 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
650 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
654 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
657 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
658 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
659 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
660 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
665 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
671 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
674 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
675 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
676 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
677 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
678 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
680 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
681 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
682 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
683 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
684 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
685 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
689 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
692 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
693 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
694 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
695 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
696 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
698 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
702 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
704 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
708 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
710 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
711 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
712 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
713 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
714 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
715 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
716 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
717 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
718 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
719 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
720 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
724 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
726 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
727 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
729 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
730 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
731 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
732 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
734 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
735 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
739 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
741 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
742 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
743 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
744 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
745 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
746 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
747 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
749 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
750 that uses them. Affected options are:
751 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
752 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
753 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
754 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
755 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
756 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
757 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
758 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
759 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
760 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
761 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
762 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
766 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
768 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
773 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
775 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
779 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
781 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
782 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
784 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
785 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
786 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
787 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
788 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
790 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
792 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
793 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
794 rules (see bug #509756).
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
798 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
804 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
805 * Typo. Closes: #493062
806 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
807 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
811 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
814 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
815 empty files. Closes: #490937
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
819 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
825 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
832 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
834 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
835 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
836 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
837 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
838 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
843 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
845 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
846 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
847 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
848 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
852 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
855 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
856 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
857 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
858 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
859 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
863 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
870 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
872 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
873 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
874 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
875 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
876 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
877 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
878 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
879 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
880 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
881 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
885 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
888 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
889 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
890 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
891 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
893 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
894 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
895 breaking backwards compatibility.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
899 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
902 message in perl 5.10.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
906 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
912 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Convert copyright file to new format.
915 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
919 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
922 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
926 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
929 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
930 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
931 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
932 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
933 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
934 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
935 logging by dh_listpackages.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
939 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
942 run and there are no packages of that type.
943 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
944 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
945 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
946 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
948 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
949 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
953 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
955 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
956 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
957 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
961 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
964 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
965 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
967 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
968 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
969 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
970 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
971 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
972 planned but not yet implemented.)
973 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
974 if the Makefile has such a target.
975 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
976 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
977 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
978 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
979 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
980 but not yet implemented.)
981 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
982 recommended default, especially when using dh.
983 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
984 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
985 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
987 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
989 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
990 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
992 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
993 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
994 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
999 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
1002 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
1003 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1007 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1009 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1010 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1011 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1015 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1021 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1027 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1030 just those installed by the program.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1034 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1037 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1038 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1042 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1045 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1046 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1047 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1048 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1052 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1055 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1056 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1060 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1063 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1064 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1068 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1071 with policy. Closes: #461392
1072 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1073 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1074 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1075 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1076 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1080 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1083 Closes: #460340, #460351
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1087 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1090 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1091 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1092 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1093 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1097 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1100 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1101 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1102 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1103 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1104 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1105 package build directory won't work.
1106 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1107 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1108 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1109 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1110 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1111 mode. Closes: #459426
1112 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1117 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1120 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1124 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1128 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1129 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1130 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1131 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1132 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1133 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1137 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1140 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1141 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1142 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1143 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1147 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1150 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1151 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1152 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1153 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1154 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1158 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1161 debian/package.triggers files.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1168 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1172 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1175 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1176 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1177 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1178 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1183 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1186 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1190 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1193 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1194 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1196 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1201 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1205 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1206 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1207 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1211 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1225 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1228 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1230 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1231 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1232 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1234 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1235 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1236 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1240 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1243 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1244 * Update urls to web page.
1245 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1246 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1247 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1248 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1252 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1255 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1256 - typo in alternatives call
1257 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1259 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1260 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1264 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1267 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1272 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1278 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1284 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1287 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1289 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1290 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1291 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1292 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1293 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1294 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1295 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1296 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1297 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1298 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1299 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1303 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1306 package install. Closes: #415717
1307 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1308 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1309 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1310 script and then remove the python files.
1311 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1312 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1313 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1314 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1315 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1316 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1317 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1318 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1319 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1320 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1321 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1322 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1323 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1327 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Correct typo in french translation
1333 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1334 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1336 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1338 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1339 Closes: #406921, #381940
1340 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1342 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1343 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1344 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1345 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1346 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1347 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1348 specified). Closes: #381851
1349 * Misc minor changes.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1353 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1360 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1361 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1371 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1372 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1375 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1376 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1378 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1379 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1380 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1381 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1385 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1388 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1391 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1395 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1401 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1407 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1408 a difficult situation.
1409 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1410 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1411 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1412 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1413 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1414 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1415 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1416 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1417 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1418 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1422 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Non-maintainer upload.
1425 * Update of dh_python
1426 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1427 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1429 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1430 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1431 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1432 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1433 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1435 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1437 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Non-maintainer upload.
1440 * Update of dh_python
1441 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1442 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1443 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1444 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1445 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1446 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1447 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1448 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1449 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1450 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1452 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1453 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1454 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1455 the not too-distant future).
1456 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1457 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1458 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1459 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1460 thus made the build fail.
1462 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1464 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * Non-maintainer upload.
1467 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1469 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1471 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1474 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1475 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1476 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1477 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1478 package. Closes: #301424
1479 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1480 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1481 fonts). Closes: #372686
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1485 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1491 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1492 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1493 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1494 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1495 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1496 above, but already depends on that.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1500 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1503 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1504 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1505 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1506 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1507 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1511 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1517 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1523 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1524 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1528 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1531 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1535 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1539 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1540 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1541 new version (0.24.1).
1542 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1543 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1546 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1547 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1548 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1549 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1550 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1551 new directory on their own.
1552 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1553 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1557 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1560 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1561 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1562 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1563 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1567 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1570 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1571 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1572 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1573 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1574 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1578 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1584 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1588 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1589 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1593 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1594 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1598 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1600 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1601 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1603 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1604 ignored. Closes: #337664
1606 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1611 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1617 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1622 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1623 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1624 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1625 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1626 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1627 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1628 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1632 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1635 version. Closes: #350607
1636 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1637 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1638 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1639 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1643 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1646 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1647 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1648 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1665 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1668 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1672 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1675 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1676 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1677 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1678 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1679 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1680 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1684 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1687 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1688 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1693 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1696 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1700 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1703 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1707 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1710 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1711 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1712 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1713 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1714 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1715 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1719 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1723 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1724 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1725 link. Closes: #346405
1726 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1728 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1729 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1730 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1731 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1732 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1733 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1734 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1738 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1745 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1751 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1754 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1758 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1761 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1766 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1770 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1771 installed. Closes: #342033
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1775 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1778 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1779 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1780 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1785 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1791 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1797 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1801 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1802 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1803 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1807 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1810 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1815 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1822 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1828 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1831 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1832 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1833 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1834 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1835 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1836 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1837 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1839 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1843 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1846 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1847 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1854 in standard man dirs.
1855 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1859 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1868 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1887 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1890 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1891 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1898 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1899 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1900 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1902 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1904 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1919 mode. Closes: #324161
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1926 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1927 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1928 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1929 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1934 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1937 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1938 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1939 is necesary for sanity.
1940 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1941 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1946 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1948 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1949 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1956 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1960 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1969 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1970 released, so use at your own risk.
1971 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1972 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1974 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1975 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1976 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1977 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1978 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1979 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1980 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1981 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1982 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1983 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1984 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1985 including twice per config file line now..
1986 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1987 and simplfy the rules file.
1988 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1989 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1990 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1992 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1993 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1997 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
2000 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
2004 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2007 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2011 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2014 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2018 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2021 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2022 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2023 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2024 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2025 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2026 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2033 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2034 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2035 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2040 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2043 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2044 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2052 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2053 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2054 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2059 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2062 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2063 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2064 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2081 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2084 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2085 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2086 unknown. Closes: #282924
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2090 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2097 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Spanish man page updates.
2100 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2114 * dh_desktop: reindent
2115 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2116 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2126 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2128 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2134 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2138 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2141 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2142 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2146 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2158 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2165 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2167 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2168 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2172 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2175 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2176 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2177 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2178 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2179 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2180 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2182 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2183 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2184 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2185 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2186 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2187 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2188 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2189 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2190 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2191 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2192 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2193 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2194 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2195 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2196 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2197 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2201 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2208 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2211 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2215 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2218 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2222 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2225 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2229 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2232 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2242 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2248 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2254 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2257 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2258 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2259 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2263 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2266 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2270 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2273 but occasionally right and necessary.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2277 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2280 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2281 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2282 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2283 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2284 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2288 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2291 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2293 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2294 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2295 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2296 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2297 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2298 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2299 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2300 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2301 postinst scripts for udebs.
2302 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2309 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2311 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2312 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2316 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2322 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2329 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2339 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2343 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2346 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2353 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2356 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2357 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2361 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2370 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2374 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2377 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2378 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2379 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2381 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2383 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2384 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2385 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2389 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2392 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2400 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2401 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2402 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2407 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2413 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2422 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2423 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2424 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2425 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2426 associated -dbg packages.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2430 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2433 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2440 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2444 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2447 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2451 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2454 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2459 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2462 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2466 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2469 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2474 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2477 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2485 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2486 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2487 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2488 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2489 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2490 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2491 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2492 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2493 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2494 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2498 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2501 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2509 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2510 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2517 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2518 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2526 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2530 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2533 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2540 out section number. Closes: #204731
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2551 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2563 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2566 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2567 removal. Closes: #204286
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2574 renaming. Closes: #203548
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2578 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2581 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2582 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2592 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2598 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2604 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2607 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2608 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2609 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2613 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2616 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2617 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2634 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2637 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2642 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2645 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2652 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2654 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2655 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2662 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2667 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2670 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2680 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2682 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2689 it break hard links (see #188663).
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2696 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2700 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2706 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2710 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2711 debconf-mergetemplates
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2715 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2718 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2722 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2725 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2729 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2732 * Update debhelper(1).
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2739 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2740 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2741 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2742 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2743 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2750 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2751 the shell. Closes: #178524
2752 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2756 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2759 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2763 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2766 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2773 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2774 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2775 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2776 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2784 files from installation.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2788 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2791 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2792 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2796 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2799 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2803 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2806 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2810 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2816 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2822 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2826 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2827 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2829 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2833 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2836 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2837 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2838 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2839 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2843 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2846 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2850 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2853 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2854 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2858 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2862 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2877 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2878 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2879 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2887 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2888 practice. Closes: #163303
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2892 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2898 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2908 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2910 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2911 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2912 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2913 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2914 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2918 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2921 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2932 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2942 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2947 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2953 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2959 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2965 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2975 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2976 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2977 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2978 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2983 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2989 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2996 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2999 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
3000 * Removed dh_installxaw.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3007 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3008 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3009 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3010 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3011 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3015 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3018 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3020 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3025 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3028 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3032 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3035 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3036 right thing. Closes: #150644
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3040 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Stupid, evil typo.
3043 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3047 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3054 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3057 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3058 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3072 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3079 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3080 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3085 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3088 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3092 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3098 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3101 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3102 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3106 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3112 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Removing perl warning message.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3118 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3121 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3122 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3123 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3124 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3125 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3126 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3127 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3128 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3132 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3138 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3145 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3148 debconf-mergetemplate.
3149 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3150 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3154 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3157 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3158 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3159 dh_install, which ...
3160 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3161 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3162 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3163 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3164 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3165 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3166 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3167 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3168 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3169 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3170 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3171 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3172 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3173 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3174 other minor changes.
3175 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3176 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3177 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3178 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3179 course there's -X ..)
3180 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3181 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3182 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3184 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3185 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3186 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3187 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3188 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3202 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3206 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3212 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3218 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3224 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3230 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3233 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3234 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3235 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3236 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3238 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3239 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3243 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3249 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3252 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3256 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3259 upset. Closes: #131322
3261 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3263 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3266 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3267 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3268 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3269 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3270 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3271 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3272 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3273 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3274 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3275 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3276 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3277 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3278 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3279 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3280 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3282 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3286 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3289 - Better indenting of generated code.
3290 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3294 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3298 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3299 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3300 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3301 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3302 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3303 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3304 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3308 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3311 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3315 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3318 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3319 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3320 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3321 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3322 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3323 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3324 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3325 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3326 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3327 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3328 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3329 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3330 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3331 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3332 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3337 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3343 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3346 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3347 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3351 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3354 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3355 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3359 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3365 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3368 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3369 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3370 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3371 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3372 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3377 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3383 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3386 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3390 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3393 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3398 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3407 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3411 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3417 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3421 Also some indentation fixes.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3428 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3429 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3430 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3431 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3432 Closes: #106514, #85520
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3436 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3442 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3454 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3460 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3466 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3468 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3469 change it in debhelper v4..
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3473 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3479 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3482 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3486 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3489 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3493 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3499 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3502 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3503 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3504 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3505 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3506 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3507 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3508 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3509 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3510 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3511 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3512 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3513 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3517 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3520 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3524 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3531 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3534 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3535 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3536 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3537 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3538 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3539 program those options go to. So, for example,
3540 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3541 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3542 something complex. Closes: #89311
3543 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3547 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3550 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3551 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3552 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3556 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3559 through loop. Closes: #98598
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3563 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * Missing semi-colon.
3566 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3567 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3571 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3574 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3575 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3576 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3580 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3583 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3584 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3588 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3591 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3595 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3598 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3599 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3603 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3606 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3607 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3608 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3612 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3615 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3616 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3617 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3621 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3624 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3628 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3634 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3640 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3646 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3652 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3655 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3659 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3662 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3663 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3664 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3665 followed. Closes: #85483
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3669 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3671 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3672 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3673 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3677 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3680 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3681 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3682 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3683 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3684 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3685 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3686 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3687 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3688 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3689 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3690 Closes: #88464, #77743
3691 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3692 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3693 us to deal with that gracefully.
3694 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3696 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3697 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3698 a while, Closes: #51225
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3702 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3708 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3711 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3715 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3719 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3724 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3727 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3728 don't make packlist files.
3729 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3730 debhelper coding standards.
3731 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3732 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3736 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3739 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3743 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3746 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3747 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3748 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3749 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3750 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3751 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3752 but is mildly deprecated.
3753 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3754 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3755 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3756 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3757 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3758 switching to statoverrides..
3759 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3760 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3761 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3762 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3763 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3764 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3766 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3767 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3768 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3769 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3770 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3771 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3772 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3773 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3774 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3776 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3777 variable names, pod man pages).
3778 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3779 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3780 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3781 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3782 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3783 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3784 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3794 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3801 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3804 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3808 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3810 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3811 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3812 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3816 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3818 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3819 they were previously ignored.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3825 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3826 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3830 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3832 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3833 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3834 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3838 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3840 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3846 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3847 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3851 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3853 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3854 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3855 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3856 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3857 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3858 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3859 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3860 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3861 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3862 it is an obsolete program.
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3868 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3872 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3876 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3878 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3882 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3884 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3886 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3888 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3892 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * typo: Closes, #78567
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3904 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3910 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3919 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3920 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3921 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3922 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3923 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3930 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3935 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3938 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3939 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3940 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3941 backwards-compatibility.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3945 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3948 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3949 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3950 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3951 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3952 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3953 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3955 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3956 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3957 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3959 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3961 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3962 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3963 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3964 should now be raised to severity important..
3965 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3966 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3973 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3978 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3984 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3990 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4006 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4007 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4008 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4009 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4013 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4019 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4022 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4023 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4024 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4025 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4026 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4027 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4032 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4035 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4039 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4048 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4056 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4057 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4058 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4059 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4063 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4067 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4070 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4073 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4074 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4077 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4079 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4080 the TODO entry about it.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4094 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4095 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4102 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4103 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4104 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4105 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4109 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4115 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4125 (this appears to be logal).
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4132 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4133 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4134 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4135 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4148 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4149 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4150 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4151 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4155 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4157 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4161 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4163 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4164 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4177 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4178 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4179 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4180 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4201 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4202 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4203 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4204 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4205 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4206 notice until v2 is complete.
4207 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4208 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4209 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4210 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4211 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4212 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4214 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4215 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4216 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4217 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4227 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4229 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4234 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4237 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4251 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4252 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4253 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4254 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4259 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4262 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4263 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4264 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4272 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4273 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4280 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4287 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4301 depend on the build and install targets.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4308 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4319 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4321 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4325 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4331 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4334 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4335 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4336 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4337 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4338 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4339 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4341 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4342 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4343 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4344 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4345 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4346 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4347 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4351 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4357 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4363 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4366 right place. Closes: #55065
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4370 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4377 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4380 * Copyright date updates.
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4384 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4387 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4398 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4400 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4405 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4411 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4417 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4423 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4426 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4427 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4428 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4429 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4430 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4431 bits until all files have been registered.
4433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4435 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4437 * dh_installmanpages:
4438 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4439 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4440 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4441 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4442 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4443 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4444 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4445 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4446 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4447 otherwise change the result at all.
4449 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4450 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4451 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4452 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4453 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4458 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4467 act on files that don't exist.
4468 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4469 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4470 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4472 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4473 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4474 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4475 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4479 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4485 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4491 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4494 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4498 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4501 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4503 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4504 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4505 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4509 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4512 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4513 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4514 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4515 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4516 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4517 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4518 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4520 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4522 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4526 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4533 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4539 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4545 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4548 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4567 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4568 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4569 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4570 I made some changes, though:
4571 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4572 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4573 that is a clear violation of policy.
4574 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4575 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4576 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4577 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4578 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4579 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4580 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4581 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4582 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4584 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4594 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4597 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4601 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4603 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4604 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4605 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4616 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4618 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4626 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4627 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4628 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4629 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4630 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4631 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4632 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4646 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4647 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4660 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4667 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4668 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4672 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4674 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4679 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4681 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4683 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4687 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4690 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4691 for the dependancies to be generated.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4695 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4698 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4705 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4706 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4707 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4715 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4716 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4732 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4735 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4739 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4745 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4748 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4749 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4750 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4751 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4752 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4753 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4754 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4755 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4756 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4757 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4758 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4759 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4763 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4766 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4767 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4769 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4770 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4771 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4772 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4773 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4774 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4776 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4777 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4781 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4784 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4788 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4795 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4797 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4798 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4803 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4806 for building debhelper.
4807 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4811 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4818 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4821 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4825 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4828 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4829 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4830 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4831 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4832 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4833 it's always available.
4835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4837 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4839 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4840 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4841 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4842 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4846 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4849 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4850 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4854 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4863 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4867 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4873 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4876 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4877 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4878 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4882 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4885 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4893 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4894 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4896 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4897 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4901 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4907 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4916 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4920 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4923 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4924 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4926 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4930 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4932 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4933 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4934 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4935 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4939 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4941 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4942 things if CDPATH is set.
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4946 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4952 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4955 seems to make sense for the transition.
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4959 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4962 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4967 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4970 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4971 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4975 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4977 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4978 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4982 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4985 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4986 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4987 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4988 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4992 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4998 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
5001 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
5002 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
5003 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
5004 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5005 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5006 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5007 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5008 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5009 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5010 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5015 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5017 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5018 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5019 * README: mention doc/v2
5020 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5021 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5027 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5028 be using this script RSN.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5035 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5036 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5037 more than 1 init script.
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5041 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5044 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5048 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * Changed perl version detection.
5051 * Changed call to find.
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5058 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5060 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5065 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5067 * Really include dh_installpam.
5069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5071 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5073 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5074 * Wrote man page for same.
5076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5078 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5080 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5081 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5082 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5097 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5098 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5099 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5100 x bit was being set!
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5107 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5108 well. (Closes: 38900)
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5115 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5116 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5133 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5139 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5142 help from Julian Gilbey.
5143 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5144 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5145 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5146 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5147 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5148 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5149 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5154 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5160 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5162 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5167 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5179 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5181 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5182 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5189 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5196 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5200 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5209 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5213 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5219 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5225 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5228 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5229 may be deleted. (#35845)
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5233 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Various man page enhancements.
5236 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5241 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5243 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5244 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5245 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5252 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5253 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5254 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5256 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5257 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5262 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5264 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5268 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5270 * Another very minor typo fix.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * Very minor typo fix.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5283 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5284 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5297 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5298 variables properly (#34850).
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5302 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5308 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5311 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5312 (automatically generated by build process).
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5316 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5318 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5325 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5326 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5328 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5332 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5335 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5339 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * README: minor typo fix.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5348 leave it at that. :-)
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5352 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5360 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5364 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5367 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5368 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5369 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5376 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5380 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5382 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5383 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5387 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5390 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5391 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5392 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5393 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5400 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5401 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5402 Craig Small for spotting this.
5404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5406 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5408 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5409 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5410 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5414 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5416 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5420 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5423 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5427 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5429 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5430 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5431 working on the last version of debhelper.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5438 being made. (#23255)
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5442 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5448 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5451 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5455 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5458 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5459 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5460 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5461 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5468 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5469 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5470 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5471 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5473 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5474 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5476 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5481 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5493 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5495 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5496 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5497 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5498 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5499 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5500 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5501 suidregister actually supports it.
5502 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5503 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5507 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5514 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5517 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5518 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5519 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5520 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5521 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5522 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5523 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5527 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5529 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5530 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5534 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5537 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5538 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5539 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5540 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5544 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5547 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5549 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5550 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5551 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5552 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5553 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5554 effect, either. (#30118)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5564 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5567 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5568 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5572 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5578 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5581 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5582 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5583 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5584 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5588 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5590 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5591 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5592 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5596 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5602 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5605 packages, painlessly.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5609 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5615 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5621 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5623 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * The perl conversion is complete.
5631 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5633 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5634 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5635 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5640 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5642 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5643 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5644 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5645 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5649 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5652 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5654 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5656 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5657 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5661 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5663 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5664 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5665 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5669 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5671 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5678 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5679 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5680 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5681 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5682 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5686 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5689 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5690 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5691 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5692 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5696 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5699 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5703 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5705 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5706 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5707 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5708 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5709 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5710 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5711 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5712 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5713 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5717 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5719 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5726 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5727 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5728 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5733 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5735 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5736 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5740 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5742 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5743 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5747 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5749 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5750 sections of shared libraries.
5751 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5752 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5753 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5754 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5755 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5756 things you don't want them to.
5757 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5758 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5762 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5765 shared libraries. (#26414)
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5769 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5771 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5772 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5773 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5774 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5778 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5782 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5784 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5785 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5786 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5787 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5788 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5792 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5795 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5799 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5801 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5802 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5803 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5808 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5811 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5815 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5818 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5819 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5820 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5821 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5822 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5824 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5825 remove debian/files properly.
5826 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5827 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5828 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5829 * Removed bogus menu file.
5831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5833 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5835 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5836 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5840 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5843 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5844 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5845 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5846 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5847 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5848 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5852 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5854 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5855 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5856 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5857 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5858 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5862 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5869 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5872 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5873 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5875 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5876 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5877 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5878 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5879 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5880 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5884 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5887 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5888 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5889 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5890 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5891 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5892 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5893 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5894 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5895 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5896 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5897 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5898 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5899 passed any switches.
5900 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5904 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5906 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5907 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5908 at all for a long while.
5909 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5910 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5911 large chunks in the process.
5912 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5913 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5914 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5919 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5922 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5924 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5929 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5932 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5933 that don't always have the same files in them.
5934 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5935 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5936 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5940 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5944 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5945 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5946 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5947 updating 27 man pages.
5948 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5949 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5950 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5951 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5952 programs act on. (#25247)
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5956 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5960 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5961 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5962 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5963 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5964 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5965 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5970 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5977 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5984 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5986 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5987 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5991 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5997 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5999 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
6000 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
6001 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6002 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
6003 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
6004 package by accident.
6005 * Is version 1.0 next?
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6009 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6012 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6013 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6017 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6019 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6020 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6021 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6022 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6023 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6024 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6026 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6031 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6033 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6034 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6035 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6039 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6042 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6046 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6049 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6050 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6055 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6061 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6064 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6065 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6070 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6072 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6076 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6079 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6080 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6081 past week. Thanks, guys!
6083 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6084 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6085 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6086 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6087 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6088 would do in the same situation.
6089 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6090 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6092 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6094 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6095 permissions changed.
6096 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6097 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6098 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6099 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6100 files are treated identically.
6101 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6102 * Minor man page fixes.
6103 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6104 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6105 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6109 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6112 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6113 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6114 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6115 use -X multiple times, too.
6116 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6117 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6121 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6124 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6125 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6129 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6132 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6136 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6138 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6139 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6140 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6141 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6142 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6143 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6144 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6145 shape if you're starting a new package.
6147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6149 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6151 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6152 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6156 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6158 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6159 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6160 because of missing symlinks.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6164 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6170 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6173 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6174 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6175 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6176 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6177 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6179 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6180 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6184 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6186 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6187 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6188 to be changed after the fact :-)
6189 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6193 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6196 no version string after the -V.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6200 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6202 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6203 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6208 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6210 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6211 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6215 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6218 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6219 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6220 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6221 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6222 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6223 I always welcome corrections!
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6227 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6233 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6236 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6237 * Documented this new switch.
6239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6241 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6243 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6244 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6245 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6246 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6247 no packages use the old behavior.
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6251 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6254 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6255 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6259 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6261 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6262 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6266 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6268 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6272 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6275 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6279 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6281 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6282 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6283 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6284 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6288 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6294 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6297 into the source package by accident.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6301 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6304 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6305 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6306 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6307 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6308 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6309 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6314 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6316 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6318 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6319 inspired to implement some of it.
6320 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6324 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6327 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6331 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6333 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6334 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6335 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6339 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6342 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6343 have done.) (#17598)
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6347 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6353 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6362 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6369 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6370 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6377 argument processor in perl.
6378 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6379 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6380 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6381 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6385 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6387 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6388 type directories. (#16933)
6389 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6390 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6391 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6392 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6393 are supported. (#16935)
6394 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6399 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6401 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6402 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6406 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6410 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6411 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6412 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6413 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6414 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6415 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6419 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6421 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6422 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6423 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6425 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6426 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6427 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6428 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6429 a given package, or -i or -a.
6430 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6431 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6432 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6433 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6434 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6435 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6436 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6437 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6438 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6440 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6441 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6442 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6446 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6449 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6450 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6455 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6457 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6458 does not have a section.
6460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6462 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6464 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6465 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6466 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6467 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6471 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6473 * Fixed typo #16215.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6477 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6480 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6481 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6482 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6483 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6484 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6492 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6493 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6494 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6499 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6501 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6505 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6507 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6514 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6515 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6516 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6517 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6518 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6519 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6523 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6525 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6529 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6531 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6532 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6536 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6538 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6539 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6540 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6541 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6545 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6547 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6548 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6552 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6554 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6558 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6560 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6561 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6568 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6572 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6574 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6578 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6581 postinst, postrm, etc.
6583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6585 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6587 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6591 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6594 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6595 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6596 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6597 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6598 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6602 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6604 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6605 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6606 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6610 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6612 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6613 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6617 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6619 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6620 installing package files into.
6621 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6626 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6628 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6630 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6634 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6636 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6640 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6642 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6643 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6647 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6649 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6650 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6651 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6652 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6653 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6657 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6659 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6660 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6661 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6662 multiple binary packages.
6663 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6664 should rebuild them with this version.
6665 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6669 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6671 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6672 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6676 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6678 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6679 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6683 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6685 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6686 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6687 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6688 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6689 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6690 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6691 debian/README.debian.
6692 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6693 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6694 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6695 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6696 in a few situations.)
6698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6700 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6702 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6706 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6708 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6712 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6714 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6715 * Fixed several man pages.
6717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6719 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6721 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6722 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6723 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6727 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6729 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6730 is ready for general use.
6731 * Added man pages for all commands.
6732 * Multiple binary package support.
6733 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6734 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6735 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6737 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6738 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6739 auto-installed as parameters.
6740 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6742 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6745 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6746 the package build directory it is to act on.
6747 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6748 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6749 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6753 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6755 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6756 ready to replace debstd.
6758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400