1 debhelper (7.2.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
4 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
5 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
7 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
9 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:26:03 -0400
11 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
13 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
15 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
19 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
22 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
23 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
24 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
25 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
30 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
36 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
39 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
40 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
41 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
42 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
43 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
45 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
46 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
47 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
48 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
49 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
50 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
54 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
57 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
58 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
59 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
60 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
61 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
63 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
67 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
69 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
73 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
75 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
76 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
77 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
78 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
79 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
80 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
81 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
82 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
83 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
84 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
85 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
89 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
91 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
92 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
94 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
95 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
96 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
97 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
99 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
100 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
104 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
106 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
107 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
108 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
109 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
110 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
111 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
112 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
114 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
115 that uses them. Affected options are:
116 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
117 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
118 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
119 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
120 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
121 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
122 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
123 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
124 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
125 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
126 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
127 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
131 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
138 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
144 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
146 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
147 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
149 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
150 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
151 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
152 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
153 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
155 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
157 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
158 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
159 rules (see bug #509756).
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
163 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
166 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
169 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
170 * Typo. Closes: #493062
171 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
172 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
176 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
179 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
180 empty files. Closes: #490937
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
184 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
186 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
190 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
197 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
200 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
201 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
202 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
203 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
208 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
210 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
211 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
212 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
213 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
217 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
220 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
221 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
222 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
223 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
224 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
228 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
235 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
237 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
238 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
239 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
240 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
241 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
242 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
243 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
244 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
245 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
246 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
250 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
253 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
254 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
255 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
256 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
258 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
259 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
260 breaking backwards compatability.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
264 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
267 message in perl 5.10.
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
271 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
277 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Convert copyright file to new format.
280 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
284 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
287 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
291 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
293 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
294 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
295 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
296 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
297 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
298 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
299 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
300 logging by dh_listpackages.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
304 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
306 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
307 run and there are no packages of that type.
308 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
309 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
310 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
311 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
313 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
314 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
318 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
320 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
321 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
322 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
326 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
329 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
330 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
332 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
333 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
334 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
335 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
336 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
337 planned but not yet implemented.)
338 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
339 if the Makefile has such a target.
340 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
341 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
342 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
343 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
344 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
345 but not yet implemented.)
346 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
347 recommended default, especially when using dh.
348 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
349 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
350 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
352 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
354 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
355 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
357 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
358 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
359 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
364 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
367 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
368 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
372 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
374 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
375 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
376 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
380 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
386 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
392 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
395 just those installed by the program.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
399 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
402 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
403 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
407 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
409 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
410 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
411 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
412 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
413 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
417 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
420 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
421 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
425 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
428 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
429 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
433 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
436 with policy. Closes: #461392
437 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
438 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
439 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
440 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
441 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
445 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
448 Closes: #460340, #460351
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
452 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
455 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
456 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
457 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
458 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
462 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
465 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
466 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
467 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
468 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
469 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
470 package build directory won't work.
471 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
472 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
473 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
474 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
475 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
476 mode. Closes: #459426
477 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
482 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
485 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
489 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
493 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
494 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
495 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
496 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
497 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
498 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
502 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
505 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
506 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
507 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
508 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
512 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
515 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
516 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
517 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
518 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
519 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
523 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
526 debian/package.triggers files.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
530 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
533 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
537 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
540 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
541 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
542 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
543 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
548 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
551 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
555 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
558 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
559 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
561 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
566 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
570 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
571 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
572 * Typo. Closes: #441272
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
576 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
583 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
590 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
593 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
595 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
596 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
597 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
599 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
600 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
601 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
605 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
607 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
608 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
609 * Update urls to web page.
610 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
612 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
613 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
617 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
620 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
621 - typo in alternatives call
622 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
624 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
625 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
629 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
632 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
637 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
643 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
649 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
652 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
654 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
655 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
656 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
657 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
658 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
659 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
660 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
661 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
662 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
663 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
664 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
668 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
671 package install. Closes: #415717
672 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
673 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
674 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
675 script and then remove the python files.
676 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
677 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
678 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
679 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
680 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
681 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
682 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
683 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
684 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
685 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
686 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
687 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
688 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
692 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Correct typo in french translation
698 * Typo. Closes: #400571
699 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
701 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
703 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
704 Closes: #406921, #381940
705 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
707 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
708 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
709 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
710 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
711 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
712 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
713 specified). Closes: #381851
714 * Misc minor changes.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
718 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
725 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
726 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
730 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
736 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
737 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
740 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
741 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
743 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
744 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
745 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
746 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
750 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
753 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
756 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
760 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
766 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
772 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
773 a difficult situation.
774 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
775 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
776 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
777 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
778 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
779 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
780 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
781 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
782 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
783 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
787 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Non-maintainer upload.
790 * Update of dh_python
791 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
792 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
794 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
795 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
796 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
797 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
798 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
800 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
802 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Non-maintainer upload.
805 * Update of dh_python
806 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
807 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
808 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
809 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
810 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
811 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
812 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
813 specific python version. Closes: #373853
814 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
815 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
817 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
818 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
819 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
820 the not too-distant future).
821 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
822 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
823 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
824 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
825 thus made the build fail.
827 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
829 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
831 * Non-maintainer upload.
832 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
834 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
836 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
839 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
840 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
841 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
842 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
843 package. Closes: #301424
844 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
845 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
846 fonts). Closes: #372686
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
850 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
856 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
857 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
858 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
859 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
860 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
861 above, but already depends on that.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
865 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
868 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
869 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
870 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
871 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
872 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
876 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
882 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
888 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
889 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
893 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
896 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
900 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
904 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
905 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
906 new version (0.24.1).
907 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
908 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
911 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
912 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
913 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
914 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
915 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
916 new directory on their own.
917 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
918 * Fix broken directory removal code.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
922 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
925 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
926 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
927 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
928 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
932 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
935 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
936 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
937 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
938 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
939 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
943 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
949 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Typo. Closes: #358904
953 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
954 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
958 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
959 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
963 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
965 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
966 || exit 0 instead of the intended
968 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
969 ignored. Closes: #337664
971 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
976 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
982 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
985 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
987 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
988 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
989 the dh_installdebconf manpage
990 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
991 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
992 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
993 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
997 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
999 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1000 version. Closes: #350607
1001 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1002 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1003 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1004 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1008 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1011 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1012 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1013 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1017 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1024 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1030 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1033 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1040 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1041 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1042 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1043 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1044 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1045 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1049 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1052 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1053 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1058 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1061 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1065 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1068 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1072 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1075 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1076 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1077 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1078 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1079 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1080 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1084 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1088 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1089 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1090 link. Closes: #346405
1091 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1093 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1094 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1095 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1096 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1097 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1098 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1099 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1103 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1110 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1116 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1119 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1123 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1126 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1131 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1135 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1136 installed. Closes: #342033
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1140 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1143 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1144 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1145 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1150 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1156 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1166 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1167 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1168 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1172 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1175 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1180 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1187 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1193 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1196 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1197 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1198 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1199 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1200 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1201 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1202 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1204 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1208 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1211 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1212 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1216 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1219 in standard man dirs.
1220 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1224 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1230 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1233 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1238 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1245 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1252 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1255 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1256 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1263 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1264 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1265 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1267 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1269 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1275 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1281 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1284 mode. Closes: #324161
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1288 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1291 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1292 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1293 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1294 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1299 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1302 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1303 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1304 is necesary for sanity.
1305 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1306 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1311 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1313 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1314 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1318 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1321 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1325 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1331 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1334 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1335 released, so use at your own risk.
1336 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1337 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1339 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1340 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1341 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1342 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1343 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1344 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1345 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1346 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1347 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1348 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1349 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1350 including twice per config file line now..
1351 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1352 and simplfy the rules file.
1353 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1354 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1355 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1357 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1358 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1365 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1369 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1372 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1379 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1386 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1387 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1388 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1389 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1390 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1391 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1398 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1399 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1400 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1405 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1408 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1409 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1414 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1417 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1418 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1419 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1424 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1427 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1428 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1429 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1433 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1439 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1446 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1449 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1450 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1451 unknown. Closes: #282924
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1455 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1462 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Spanish man page updates.
1465 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1479 * dh_desktop: reindent
1480 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1481 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1491 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1493 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1497 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1499 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1503 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1506 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1507 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1511 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1517 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1523 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1530 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1533 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1537 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1540 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1541 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1542 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1543 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1544 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1545 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1547 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1548 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1549 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1550 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1551 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1552 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1553 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1554 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1555 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1556 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1557 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1558 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1559 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1560 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1561 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1562 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1566 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1576 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1580 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1583 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1590 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1597 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1601 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1613 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1619 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1622 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1623 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1624 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1628 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1631 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1635 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1638 but occasionally right and necessary.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1642 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1645 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1646 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1647 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1648 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1649 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1656 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1658 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1659 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1660 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1661 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1662 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1663 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1664 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1665 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1666 postinst scripts for udebs.
1667 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1674 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1676 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1677 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1681 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1687 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1694 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1704 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1708 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1711 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1715 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1718 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1721 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1722 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1726 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1732 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1735 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1739 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1742 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1743 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1744 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1746 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1748 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1749 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1750 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1754 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1757 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1765 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1766 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1767 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1772 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1778 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1784 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1787 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1788 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1789 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1790 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1791 associated -dbg packages.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1798 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1805 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1809 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1812 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1819 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1827 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1834 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1839 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1842 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1850 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1851 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1852 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1853 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1854 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1855 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1856 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1857 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1858 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1859 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1863 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1866 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1871 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1874 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1875 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1882 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1883 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1888 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1891 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1895 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1898 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1902 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1905 out section number. Closes: #204731
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1909 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1931 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1932 removal. Closes: #204286
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1939 renaming. Closes: #203548
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1943 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1946 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1947 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1957 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1963 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1969 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1972 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1973 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1974 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1978 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1981 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1982 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2002 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2010 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2014 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2017 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2019 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2020 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2027 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2032 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2035 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2039 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2045 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2047 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2054 it break hard links (see #188663).
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2058 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2061 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2065 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2071 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2075 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2076 debconf-mergetemplates
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2080 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2083 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2087 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2090 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2094 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2097 * Update debhelper(1).
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2101 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2104 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2105 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2106 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2107 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2108 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2112 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2115 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2116 the shell. Closes: #178524
2117 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2121 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2124 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2128 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2131 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2138 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2139 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2140 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2141 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2146 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2149 files from installation.
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2153 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2156 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2157 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2161 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2164 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2171 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2181 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2187 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2191 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2192 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2194 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2201 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2202 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2203 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2204 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2211 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2215 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2218 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2219 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2227 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2242 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2243 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2244 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2249 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2252 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2253 practice. Closes: #163303
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2257 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2263 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2273 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2275 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2276 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2277 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2278 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2279 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2283 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2286 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2297 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2304 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2306 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2307 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2312 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2318 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2330 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2337 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2340 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2341 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2342 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2343 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2364 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2365 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2369 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2372 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2373 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2374 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2375 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2376 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2380 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2383 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2385 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2393 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2400 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2401 right thing. Closes: #150644
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Stupid, evil typo.
2408 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2422 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2423 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2434 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2437 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2441 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2444 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2445 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2453 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2457 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2466 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2467 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2471 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2477 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Removing perl warning message.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2483 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2486 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2487 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2488 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2489 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2490 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2491 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2492 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2493 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2513 debconf-mergetemplate.
2514 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2515 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2522 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2523 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2524 dh_install, which ...
2525 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2526 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2527 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2528 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2529 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2530 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2531 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2532 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2533 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2534 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2535 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2536 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2537 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2538 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2539 other minor changes.
2540 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2541 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2542 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2543 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2544 course there's -X ..)
2545 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2546 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2547 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2549 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2550 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2551 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2552 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2553 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2558 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2564 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2567 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2571 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2577 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2583 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2589 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2595 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2598 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2599 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2600 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2601 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2603 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2604 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2608 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2614 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2617 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2621 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2624 upset. Closes: #131322
2626 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2628 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2631 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2632 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2633 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2634 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2635 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2636 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2637 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2638 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2639 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2640 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2641 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2642 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2643 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2644 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2645 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2647 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2651 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2654 - Better indenting of generated code.
2655 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2659 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2663 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2664 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2665 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2666 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2667 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2668 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2669 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2673 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2676 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2680 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2683 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2684 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2685 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2686 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2687 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2688 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2689 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2690 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2691 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2692 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2693 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2694 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2695 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2696 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2697 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2702 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2708 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2711 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2712 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2716 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2719 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2720 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2724 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2730 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2733 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2734 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2735 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2736 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2737 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2742 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2748 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2751 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2755 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2758 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2763 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2769 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2772 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2776 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2782 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2786 Also some indentation fixes.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2790 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2793 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2794 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2795 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2796 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2797 Closes: #106514, #85520
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2801 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2807 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2813 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2819 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2825 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2831 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2834 change it in debhelper v4..
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2838 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2844 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2847 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2851 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2854 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2858 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2864 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2867 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2868 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2869 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2870 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2871 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2872 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2873 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2874 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2875 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2876 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2877 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2878 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2882 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2885 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2889 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2896 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2899 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2900 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2901 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2902 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2903 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2904 program those options go to. So, for example,
2905 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2906 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2907 something complex. Closes: #89311
2908 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2912 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2915 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2916 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2917 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2921 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2924 through loop. Closes: #98598
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Missing semi-colon.
2931 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2932 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2936 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2939 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2940 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2941 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2945 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2948 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2949 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2953 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2956 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2960 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2963 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2964 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2968 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2971 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2972 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2973 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2977 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2980 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2981 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2982 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2986 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2989 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2993 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2999 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3005 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3011 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3017 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3020 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3024 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3027 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3028 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3029 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3030 followed. Closes: #85483
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3034 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3036 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3037 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3038 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3042 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3045 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3046 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3047 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3048 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3049 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3050 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3051 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3052 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3053 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3054 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3055 Closes: #88464, #77743
3056 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3057 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3058 us to deal with that gracefully.
3059 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3061 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3062 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3063 a while, Closes: #51225
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3067 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3073 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3076 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3080 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3084 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3089 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3092 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3093 don't make packlist files.
3094 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3095 debhelper coding standards.
3096 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3097 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3101 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3104 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3108 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3111 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3112 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3113 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3114 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3115 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3116 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3117 but is mildly deprecated.
3118 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3119 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3120 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3121 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3122 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3123 switching to statoverrides..
3124 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3125 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3126 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3127 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3128 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3129 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3131 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3132 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3133 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3134 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3135 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3136 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3137 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3138 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3139 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3141 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3142 variable names, pod man pages).
3143 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3144 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3145 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3146 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3147 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3148 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3149 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3153 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3159 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3166 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3169 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3175 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3176 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3177 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3181 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3183 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3184 they were previously ignored.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3188 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3190 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3191 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3195 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3197 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3198 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3199 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3203 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3205 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3209 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3211 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3212 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3216 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3218 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3219 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3220 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3221 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3222 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3223 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3224 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3225 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3226 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3227 it is an obsolete program.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3231 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3233 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3237 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3241 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3247 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3251 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3253 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3257 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3263 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * typo: Closes, #78567
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3281 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3284 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3285 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3286 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3287 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3288 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3292 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3294 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3295 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3300 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3303 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3304 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3305 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3306 backwards-compatability.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3310 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3313 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3314 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3315 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3316 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3317 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3318 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3320 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3321 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3322 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3324 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3326 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3327 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3328 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3329 should now be raised to severity important..
3330 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3331 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3335 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3338 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3343 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3349 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3361 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3371 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3372 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3373 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3374 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3378 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3384 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3387 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3388 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3389 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3390 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3391 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3392 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3397 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3400 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3404 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3410 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3413 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3418 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3421 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3422 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3423 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3424 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3432 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3435 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3438 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3439 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3442 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3444 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3445 the TODO entry about it.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3449 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3456 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3459 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3460 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3467 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3468 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3469 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3470 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3474 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3480 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3487 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3490 (this appears to be logal).
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3494 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3497 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3498 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3499 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3500 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3504 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3510 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3513 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3514 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3515 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3516 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3520 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3529 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3533 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3540 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3543 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3544 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3545 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3550 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3557 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3563 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3566 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3567 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3568 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3569 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3570 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3571 notice until v2 is complete.
3572 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3573 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3574 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3575 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3576 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3577 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3579 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3580 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3581 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3582 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3586 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3599 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3602 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3606 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3613 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3616 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3617 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3618 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3619 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3624 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3627 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3628 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3629 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3634 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3637 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3638 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3645 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3649 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3652 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3663 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3666 depend on the build and install targets.
3668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3670 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3672 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3673 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3677 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3679 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3684 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3690 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3696 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3699 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3700 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3701 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3702 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3703 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3704 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3706 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3707 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3708 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3709 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3710 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3711 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3712 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3716 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3722 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3731 right place. Closes: #55065
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3742 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3744 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3745 * Copyright date updates.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3749 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3752 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3757 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3770 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3776 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3782 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3788 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3791 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3792 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3793 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3794 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3795 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3796 bits until all files have been registered.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3800 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_installmanpages:
3803 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3804 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3805 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3806 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3807 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3808 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3809 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3810 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3811 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3812 otherwise change the result at all.
3814 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3815 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3816 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3817 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3818 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3832 act on files that don't exist.
3833 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3834 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3835 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3837 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3838 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3839 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3840 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3844 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3850 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3856 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3859 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3863 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3866 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3868 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3869 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3870 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3877 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3878 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3879 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3880 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3881 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3882 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3883 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3885 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3887 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3898 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3900 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3904 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3913 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3929 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3932 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3933 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3934 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3935 I made some changes, though:
3936 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3937 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3938 that is a clear violation of policy.
3939 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3940 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3941 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3942 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3943 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3944 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3945 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3946 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3947 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3949 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3962 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3969 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3970 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3991 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3992 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3993 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3994 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3995 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3996 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3997 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4007 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4011 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4012 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4025 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4032 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4033 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4037 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4039 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4044 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4048 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4055 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4056 for the dependancies to be generated.
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4063 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4070 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4071 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4072 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4077 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4080 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4081 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4100 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4113 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4114 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4115 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4116 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4117 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4118 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4119 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4120 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4121 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4122 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4123 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4124 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4131 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4132 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4134 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4135 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4136 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4137 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4138 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4139 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4141 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4142 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4146 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4149 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4163 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4171 for building debhelper.
4172 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4183 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4186 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4193 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4194 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4195 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4196 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4197 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4198 it's always available.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4202 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4205 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4206 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4207 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4211 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4214 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4215 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4228 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4232 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4238 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4241 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4242 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4243 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4250 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4258 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4259 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4261 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4262 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4278 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4281 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4285 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4288 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4289 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4291 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4295 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4298 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4299 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4300 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4304 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4307 things if CDPATH is set.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4311 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4320 seems to make sense for the transition.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4324 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4327 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4335 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4336 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4343 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4347 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4350 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4351 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4352 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4353 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4366 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4367 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4368 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4369 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4370 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4371 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4372 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4373 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4374 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4375 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4380 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4383 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4384 * README: mention doc/v2
4385 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4386 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4392 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4393 be using this script RSN.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4397 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4400 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4401 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4402 more than 1 init script.
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4406 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4409 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4413 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Changed perl version detection.
4416 * Changed call to find.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4420 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4423 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4425 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4430 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Really include dh_installpam.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4436 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4439 * Wrote man page for same.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4443 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4446 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4447 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4452 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4459 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4462 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4463 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4464 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4465 x bit was being set!
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4469 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4472 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4473 well. (Closes: 38900)
4475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4477 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4479 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4480 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4481 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4485 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4491 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4498 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4504 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4507 help from Julian Gilbey.
4508 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4509 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4510 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4511 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4512 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4513 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4514 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4519 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4525 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4538 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4544 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4547 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4551 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4554 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4561 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4565 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4571 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4573 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4574 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4578 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4584 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4586 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4593 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4594 may be deleted. (#35845)
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4598 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * Various man page enhancements.
4601 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4606 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4608 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4609 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4610 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4614 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4616 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4617 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4618 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4619 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4621 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4622 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4627 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4633 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * Another very minor typo fix.
4637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4639 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4641 * Very minor typo fix.
4643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4645 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4647 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4648 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4649 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4653 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4659 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4662 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4663 variables properly (#34850).
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4667 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4669 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4673 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4675 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4676 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4677 (automatically generated by build process).
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4681 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4683 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4687 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4689 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4690 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4691 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4693 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4697 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4700 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4704 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * README: minor typo fix.
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4710 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4713 leave it at that. :-)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4729 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4731 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4732 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4733 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4734 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4738 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4741 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4745 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4747 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4748 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4752 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4755 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4756 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4757 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4758 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4762 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4764 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4765 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4766 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4767 Craig Small for spotting this.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4774 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4775 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4779 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4785 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4788 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4792 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4794 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4795 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4796 working on the last version of debhelper.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4800 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4803 being made. (#23255)
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4807 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4813 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4816 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4820 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4823 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4824 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4825 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4826 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4830 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4833 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4834 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4835 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4836 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4838 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4839 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4841 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4846 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4852 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4854 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4858 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4860 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4861 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4862 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4863 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4864 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4865 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4866 suidregister actually supports it.
4867 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4868 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4872 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4879 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4882 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4883 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4884 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4885 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4886 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4887 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4888 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4892 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4894 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4895 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4902 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4903 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4904 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4905 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4909 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4912 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4914 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4915 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4916 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4917 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4918 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4919 effect, either. (#30118)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4932 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4933 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4937 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4943 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4946 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4947 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4948 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4949 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4953 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4956 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4957 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4961 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4967 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4969 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4970 packages, painlessly.
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4974 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4980 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4986 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * The perl conversion is complete.
4996 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4998 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4999 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5000 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5005 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5008 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5009 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5010 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5014 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5017 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5019 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5021 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5022 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5026 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5029 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5030 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5034 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5040 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5043 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5044 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5045 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5046 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5047 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5054 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5055 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5056 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5057 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5064 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5071 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5072 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5073 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5074 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5075 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5076 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5077 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5078 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5088 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5090 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5091 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5092 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5093 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5101 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5105 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5108 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5112 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5115 sections of shared libraries.
5116 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5117 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5118 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5119 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5120 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5121 things you don't want them to.
5122 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5123 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5127 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5129 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5130 shared libraries. (#26414)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5136 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5137 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5138 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5139 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5147 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5149 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5150 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5151 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5152 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5153 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5157 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5160 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5167 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5168 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5173 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5175 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5176 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5183 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5184 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5185 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5186 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5187 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5189 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5190 remove debian/files properly.
5191 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5192 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5193 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5194 * Removed bogus menu file.
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5198 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5201 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5205 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5208 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5209 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5210 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5211 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5212 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5213 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5217 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5219 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5220 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5221 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5222 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5223 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5227 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5237 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5238 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5240 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5241 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5242 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5243 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5244 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5245 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5249 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5252 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5253 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5254 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5255 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5256 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5257 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5258 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5259 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5260 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5261 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5262 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5263 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5264 passed any switches.
5265 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5269 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5272 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5273 at all for a long while.
5274 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5275 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5276 large chunks in the process.
5277 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5278 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5279 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5284 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5287 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5289 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5294 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5297 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5298 that don't always have the same files in them.
5299 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5300 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5301 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5305 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5307 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5309 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5310 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5311 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5312 updating 27 man pages.
5313 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5314 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5315 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5316 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5317 programs act on. (#25247)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5321 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5325 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5326 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5327 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5328 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5329 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5330 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5335 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5342 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5344 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5349 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5352 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5356 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5362 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5365 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5366 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5367 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5368 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5369 package by accident.
5370 * Is version 1.0 next?
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5374 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5376 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5377 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5382 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5385 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5386 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5387 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5388 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5389 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5391 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5396 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5399 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5400 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5404 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5407 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5411 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5413 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5414 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5415 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5420 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5426 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5429 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5430 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5435 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5441 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5444 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5445 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5446 past week. Thanks, guys!
5448 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5449 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5450 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5451 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5452 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5453 would do in the same situation.
5454 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5455 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5457 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5459 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5460 permissions changed.
5461 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5462 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5463 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5464 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5465 files are treated identically.
5466 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5467 * Minor man page fixes.
5468 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5469 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5470 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5474 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5477 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5478 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5479 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5480 use -X multiple times, too.
5481 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5482 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5486 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5488 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5489 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5490 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5494 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5497 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5501 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5504 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5505 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5506 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5507 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5508 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5509 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5510 shape if you're starting a new package.
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5514 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5517 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5521 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5524 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5525 because of missing symlinks.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5529 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5535 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5537 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5538 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5539 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5540 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5541 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5542 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5544 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5545 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5549 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5551 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5552 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5553 to be changed after the fact :-)
5554 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5558 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5561 no version string after the -V.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5565 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5567 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5568 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5573 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5576 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5580 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5583 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5584 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5585 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5586 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5587 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5588 I always welcome corrections!
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5592 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5598 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5601 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5602 * Documented this new switch.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5606 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5609 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5610 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5611 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5612 no packages use the old behavior.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5616 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5619 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5620 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5624 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5627 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5631 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5637 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5639 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5640 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5644 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5647 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5648 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5649 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5653 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5659 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5662 into the source package by accident.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5666 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5669 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5670 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5671 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5672 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5673 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5674 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5679 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5683 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5684 inspired to implement some of it.
5685 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5689 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5691 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5692 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5698 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5699 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5700 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5704 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5706 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5707 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5708 have done.) (#17598)
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5712 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5718 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5724 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5726 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5727 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5731 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5734 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5735 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5739 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5742 argument processor in perl.
5743 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5744 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5745 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5746 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5750 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5753 type directories. (#16933)
5754 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5755 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5756 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5757 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5758 are supported. (#16935)
5759 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5764 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5767 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5771 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5775 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5776 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5777 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5778 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5779 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5780 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5784 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5786 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5787 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5788 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5790 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5791 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5792 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5793 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5794 a given package, or -i or -a.
5795 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5796 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5797 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5798 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5799 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5800 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5801 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5802 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5803 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5805 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5806 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5807 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5811 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5814 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5815 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5820 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5823 does not have a section.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5827 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5830 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5831 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5832 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5836 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5838 * Fixed typo #16215.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5842 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5845 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5846 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5847 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5848 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5849 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5854 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5856 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5857 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5858 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5859 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5876 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5879 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5880 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5881 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5882 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5883 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5884 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5894 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5897 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5901 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5904 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5905 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5906 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5910 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5913 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5917 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5919 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5923 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5926 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5930 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5933 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5937 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5943 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5945 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5946 postinst, postrm, etc.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5950 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5956 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5959 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5960 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5961 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5962 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5963 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5967 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5969 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5970 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5971 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5975 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5978 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5982 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5984 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5985 installing package files into.
5986 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5991 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5993 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5995 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5999 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6001 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6005 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6007 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6008 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6012 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6015 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6016 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6017 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6018 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6022 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6024 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6025 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6026 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6027 multiple binary packages.
6028 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6029 should rebuild them with this version.
6030 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6034 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6037 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6041 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6044 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6048 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6051 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6052 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6053 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6054 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6055 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6056 debian/README.debian.
6057 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6058 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6059 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6060 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6061 in a few situations.)
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6065 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6071 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6077 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6079 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6080 * Fixed several man pages.
6082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6084 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6086 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6087 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6088 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6092 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6094 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6095 is ready for general use.
6096 * Added man pages for all commands.
6097 * Multiple binary package support.
6098 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6099 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6100 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6102 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6103 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6104 auto-installed as parameters.
6105 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6107 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6110 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6111 the package build directory it is to act on.
6112 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6113 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6114 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6118 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6120 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6121 ready to replace debstd.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400