1 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
3 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
4 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
5 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
10 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
12 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
16 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
19 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
20 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
21 created by using `python' first during build and install.
23 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
28 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
30 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
34 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
36 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
37 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
41 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
43 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
47 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
49 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
53 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
55 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
56 contributed by Modestas Vainius
57 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
58 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
59 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
60 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
61 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
62 that support it. Closes: #480577
63 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
64 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
65 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
67 - Adds support for cmake.
68 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
69 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
71 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
73 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
74 that use them. The options are:
75 --sourcedir, --destdir
76 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
77 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
78 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
79 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
80 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
84 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
90 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
93 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
94 default. Closes: #537140
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
98 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
101 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
102 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
106 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
108 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
109 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
113 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
116 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
120 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
123 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
125 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
126 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
127 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
131 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
134 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
135 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
136 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
140 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
143 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
144 warning or deprecation message.
145 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
146 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
147 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
148 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
149 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
150 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
151 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
152 Closes: #534639, #357434
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
156 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
162 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
165 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
166 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
167 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
168 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
170 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
171 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
172 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
176 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
182 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
189 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
192 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
196 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
200 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
201 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
203 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
204 file support. Closes: #494914
205 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
209 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
212 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
213 parameters. Closes: #527256
214 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
215 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
216 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
220 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
224 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
225 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
226 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
230 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
233 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
234 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
235 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
239 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
242 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
243 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
245 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
246 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
247 by triggers). Closes: #521181
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
251 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
255 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
259 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
262 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
263 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
264 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
265 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
270 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
276 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
279 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
280 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
281 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
282 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
283 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
285 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
286 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
287 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
288 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
289 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
290 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
294 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
297 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
298 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
299 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
300 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
301 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
303 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
307 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
309 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
313 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
315 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
316 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
317 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
318 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
319 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
320 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
321 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
322 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
323 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
324 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
325 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
329 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
331 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
332 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
334 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
335 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
336 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
337 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
339 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
340 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
344 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
346 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
347 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
348 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
349 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
350 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
351 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
352 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
354 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
355 that uses them. Affected options are:
356 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
357 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
358 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
359 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
360 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
361 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
362 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
363 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
364 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
365 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
366 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
367 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
371 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
378 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
384 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
386 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
387 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
389 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
390 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
391 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
392 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
393 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
395 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
397 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
398 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
399 rules (see bug #509756).
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
403 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
409 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
410 * Typo. Closes: #493062
411 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
412 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
416 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
419 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
420 empty files. Closes: #490937
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
424 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
430 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
437 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
440 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
441 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
442 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
443 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
448 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
450 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
451 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
452 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
453 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
457 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
460 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
461 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
462 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
463 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
464 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
468 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
475 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
477 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
478 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
479 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
480 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
481 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
482 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
483 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
484 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
485 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
486 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
490 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
493 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
494 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
495 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
496 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
498 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
499 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
500 breaking backwards compatability.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
504 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
507 message in perl 5.10.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
511 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
517 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Convert copyright file to new format.
520 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
524 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
527 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
531 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
533 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
534 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
535 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
536 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
537 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
538 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
539 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
540 logging by dh_listpackages.
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
544 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
547 run and there are no packages of that type.
548 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
549 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
550 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
551 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
553 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
554 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
558 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
560 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
561 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
562 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
566 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
569 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
570 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
572 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
573 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
574 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
575 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
576 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
577 planned but not yet implemented.)
578 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
579 if the Makefile has such a target.
580 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
581 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
582 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
583 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
584 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
585 but not yet implemented.)
586 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
587 recommended default, especially when using dh.
588 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
589 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
590 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
592 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
594 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
595 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
597 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
598 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
599 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
604 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
607 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
608 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
612 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
614 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
615 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
616 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
620 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
626 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
628 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
632 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
634 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
635 just those installed by the program.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
639 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
642 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
643 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
647 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
650 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
651 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
652 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
653 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
657 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
660 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
661 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
665 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
668 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
669 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
673 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
676 with policy. Closes: #461392
677 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
678 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
679 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
680 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
681 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
685 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
688 Closes: #460340, #460351
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
692 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
695 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
696 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
697 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
698 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
702 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
705 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
706 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
707 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
708 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
709 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
710 package build directory won't work.
711 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
712 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
713 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
714 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
715 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
716 mode. Closes: #459426
717 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
722 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
725 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
729 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
733 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
734 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
735 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
736 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
737 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
738 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
742 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
745 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
746 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
747 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
748 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
752 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
755 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
756 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
757 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
758 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
759 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
763 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
766 debian/package.triggers files.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
770 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
773 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
777 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
779 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
780 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
781 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
782 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
783 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
788 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
791 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
795 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
797 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
798 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
799 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
801 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
806 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
810 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
811 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
812 * Typo. Closes: #441272
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
816 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
823 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
830 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
833 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
835 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
836 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
837 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
839 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
840 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
841 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
845 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
848 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
849 * Update urls to web page.
850 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
852 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
853 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
857 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
860 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
861 - typo in alternatives call
862 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
864 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
865 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
869 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
872 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
877 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
879 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
883 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
889 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
892 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
894 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
895 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
896 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
897 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
898 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
899 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
900 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
901 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
902 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
903 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
904 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
908 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
911 package install. Closes: #415717
912 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
913 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
914 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
915 script and then remove the python files.
916 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
917 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
918 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
919 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
920 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
921 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
922 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
923 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
924 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
925 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
926 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
927 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
928 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
932 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Correct typo in french translation
938 * Typo. Closes: #400571
939 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
941 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
943 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
944 Closes: #406921, #381940
945 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
947 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
948 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
949 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
950 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
951 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
952 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
953 specified). Closes: #381851
954 * Misc minor changes.
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
958 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
965 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
966 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
970 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
976 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
977 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
980 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
981 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
983 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
984 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
985 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
986 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
990 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
993 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
996 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1000 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1006 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1012 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1013 a difficult situation.
1014 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1015 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1016 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1017 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1018 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1019 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1020 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1021 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1022 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1023 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1027 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Non-maintainer upload.
1030 * Update of dh_python
1031 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1032 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1034 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1035 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1036 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1037 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1038 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1040 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1042 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Non-maintainer upload.
1045 * Update of dh_python
1046 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1047 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1048 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1049 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1050 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1051 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1052 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1053 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1054 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1055 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1057 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1058 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1059 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1060 the not too-distant future).
1061 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1062 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1063 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1064 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1065 thus made the build fail.
1067 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1069 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Non-maintainer upload.
1072 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1074 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1076 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1079 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1080 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1081 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1082 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1083 package. Closes: #301424
1084 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1085 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1086 fonts). Closes: #372686
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1090 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1096 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1097 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1098 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1099 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1100 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1101 above, but already depends on that.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1105 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1108 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1109 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1110 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1111 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1112 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1116 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1122 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1128 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1129 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1133 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1136 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1140 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1144 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1145 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1146 new version (0.24.1).
1147 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1148 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1151 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1152 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1153 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1154 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1155 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1156 new directory on their own.
1157 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1158 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1162 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1165 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1166 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1167 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1168 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1172 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1175 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1176 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1177 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1178 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1179 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1183 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1189 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1193 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1194 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1198 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1199 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1203 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1205 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1206 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1208 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1209 ignored. Closes: #337664
1211 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1216 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1227 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1228 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1229 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1230 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1231 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1232 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1233 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1237 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1240 version. Closes: #350607
1241 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1242 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1243 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1244 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1248 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1251 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1252 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1253 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1257 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1264 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1270 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1273 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1277 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1280 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1281 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1282 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1283 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1284 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1285 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1289 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1292 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1293 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1298 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1301 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1305 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1308 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1312 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1315 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1316 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1317 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1318 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1319 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1320 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1324 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1328 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1329 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1330 link. Closes: #346405
1331 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1333 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1334 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1335 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1336 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1337 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1338 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1339 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1343 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1350 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1356 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1359 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1363 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1366 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1371 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1375 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1376 installed. Closes: #342033
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1380 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1383 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1384 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1385 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1390 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1396 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1402 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1406 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1407 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1408 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1412 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1415 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1420 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1436 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1437 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1438 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1439 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1440 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1441 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1442 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1444 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1448 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1451 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1452 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1459 in standard man dirs.
1460 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1464 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1473 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1478 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1485 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1492 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1495 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1496 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1503 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1504 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1505 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1507 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1509 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1515 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1524 mode. Closes: #324161
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1531 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1532 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1533 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1534 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1542 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1543 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1544 is necesary for sanity.
1545 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1546 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1551 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1553 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1554 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1561 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1571 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1574 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1575 released, so use at your own risk.
1576 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1577 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1579 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1580 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1581 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1582 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1583 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1584 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1585 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1586 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1587 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1588 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1589 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1590 including twice per config file line now..
1591 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1592 and simplfy the rules file.
1593 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1594 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1595 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1597 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1598 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1605 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1612 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1616 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1619 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1626 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1627 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1628 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1629 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1630 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1631 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1638 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1639 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1640 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1645 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1648 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1649 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1654 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1657 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1658 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1659 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1664 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1667 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1668 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1669 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1673 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1679 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1689 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1690 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1691 unknown. Closes: #282924
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1695 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1702 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * Spanish man page updates.
1705 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1710 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1716 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1719 * dh_desktop: reindent
1720 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1721 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1731 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1733 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1737 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1739 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1743 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1746 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1747 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1751 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1770 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1773 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1780 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1781 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1782 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1783 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1784 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1785 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1787 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1788 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1789 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1790 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1791 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1792 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1793 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1794 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1795 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1796 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1797 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1798 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1799 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1800 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1801 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1802 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1806 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1816 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1820 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1823 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1830 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1834 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1837 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1847 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1859 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1862 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1863 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1864 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1868 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1871 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1878 but occasionally right and necessary.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1882 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1885 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1886 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1887 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1888 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1889 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1893 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1896 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1898 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1899 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1900 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1901 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1902 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1903 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1904 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1905 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1906 postinst scripts for udebs.
1907 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1911 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1914 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1916 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1917 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1921 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1927 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1934 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1944 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1948 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1951 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1955 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1958 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1961 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1962 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1966 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1972 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1975 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1979 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1982 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1983 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1984 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1986 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1988 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1989 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1990 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1994 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1997 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2002 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2005 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2006 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2007 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2024 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2027 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2028 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2029 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2030 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2031 associated -dbg packages.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2038 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2045 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2049 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2052 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2056 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2059 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2064 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2067 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2071 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2074 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2079 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2082 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2086 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2090 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2091 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2092 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2093 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2094 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2095 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2096 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2097 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2098 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2099 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2106 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2114 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2115 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2119 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2122 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2123 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2131 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2138 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2145 out section number. Closes: #204731
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2149 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2171 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2172 removal. Closes: #204286
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2179 renaming. Closes: #203548
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2186 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2187 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2203 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2209 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2212 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2213 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2214 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2221 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2222 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2242 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2250 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2254 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2257 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2259 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2260 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2264 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2267 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2272 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2275 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2287 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2291 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2294 it break hard links (see #188663).
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2298 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2301 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2305 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2315 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2316 debconf-mergetemplates
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2320 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2323 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2330 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2334 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2337 * Update debhelper(1).
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2341 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2344 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2345 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2346 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2347 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2348 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2352 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2355 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2356 the shell. Closes: #178524
2357 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2361 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2364 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2368 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2371 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2378 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2379 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2380 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2381 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2389 files from installation.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2393 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2396 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2397 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2401 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2404 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2411 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2415 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2421 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2427 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2431 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2432 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2434 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2438 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2441 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2442 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2443 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2444 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2448 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2451 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2455 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2458 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2459 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2463 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2467 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2478 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2482 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2483 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2484 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2492 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2493 practice. Closes: #163303
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2497 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2510 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2513 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2515 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2516 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2517 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2518 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2519 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2526 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2531 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2537 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2547 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2570 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2577 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2580 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2581 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2582 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2583 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2604 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2605 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2612 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2613 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2614 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2615 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2616 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2623 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2625 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2630 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2633 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2640 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2641 right thing. Closes: #150644
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2645 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Stupid, evil typo.
2648 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2652 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2659 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2662 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2663 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2677 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2684 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2685 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2690 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2693 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2697 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2703 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2706 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2707 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2717 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Removing perl warning message.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2723 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2726 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2727 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2728 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2729 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2730 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2731 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2732 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2733 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2743 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2750 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2753 debconf-mergetemplate.
2754 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2755 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2762 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2763 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2764 dh_install, which ...
2765 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2766 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2767 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2768 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2769 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2770 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2771 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2772 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2773 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2774 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2775 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2776 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2777 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2778 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2779 other minor changes.
2780 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2781 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2782 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2783 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2784 course there's -X ..)
2785 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2786 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2787 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2789 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2790 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2791 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2792 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2793 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2798 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2804 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2807 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2811 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2817 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2823 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2829 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2835 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2838 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2839 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2840 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2841 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2843 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2844 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2848 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2854 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2857 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2861 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2864 upset. Closes: #131322
2866 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2868 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2871 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2872 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2873 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2874 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2875 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2876 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2877 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2878 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2879 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2880 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2881 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2882 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2883 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2884 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2885 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2887 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2891 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2894 - Better indenting of generated code.
2895 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2899 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2903 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2904 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2905 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2906 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2907 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2908 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2909 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2913 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2916 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2920 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2923 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2924 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2925 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2926 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2927 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2928 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2929 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2930 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2931 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2932 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2933 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2934 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2935 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2936 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2937 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2942 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2948 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2951 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2952 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2956 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2959 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2960 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2964 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2970 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2973 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2974 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2975 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2976 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2977 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2982 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2988 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2991 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2995 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2998 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3009 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3012 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3016 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3022 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3026 Also some indentation fixes.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3030 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3033 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3034 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3035 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3036 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3037 Closes: #106514, #85520
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3041 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3047 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3053 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3059 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3065 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3071 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3074 change it in debhelper v4..
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3084 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3087 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3091 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3094 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3098 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3104 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3107 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3108 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3109 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3110 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3111 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3112 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3113 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3114 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3115 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3116 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3117 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3118 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3122 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3125 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3129 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3136 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3139 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3140 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3141 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3142 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3143 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3144 program those options go to. So, for example,
3145 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3146 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3147 something complex. Closes: #89311
3148 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3152 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3155 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3156 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3157 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3161 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3164 through loop. Closes: #98598
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3168 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Missing semi-colon.
3171 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3172 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3179 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3180 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3181 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3185 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3188 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3189 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3193 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3196 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3200 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3203 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3204 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3211 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3212 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3213 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3217 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3220 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3221 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3222 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3226 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3229 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3233 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3239 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3245 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3251 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3257 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3260 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3264 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3267 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3268 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3269 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3270 followed. Closes: #85483
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3274 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3276 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3277 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3278 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3282 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3285 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3286 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3287 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3288 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3289 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3290 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3291 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3292 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3293 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3294 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3295 Closes: #88464, #77743
3296 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3297 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3298 us to deal with that gracefully.
3299 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3301 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3302 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3303 a while, Closes: #51225
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3307 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3313 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3316 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3320 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3324 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3329 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3332 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3333 don't make packlist files.
3334 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3335 debhelper coding standards.
3336 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3337 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3341 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3344 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3348 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3351 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3352 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3353 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3354 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3355 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3356 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3357 but is mildly deprecated.
3358 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3359 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3360 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3361 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3362 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3363 switching to statoverrides..
3364 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3365 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3366 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3367 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3368 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3369 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3371 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3372 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3373 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3374 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3375 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3376 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3377 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3378 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3379 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3381 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3382 variable names, pod man pages).
3383 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3384 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3385 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3386 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3387 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3388 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3389 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3393 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3406 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3409 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3413 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3415 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3416 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3417 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3423 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3424 they were previously ignored.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3428 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3430 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3431 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3435 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3437 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3438 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3439 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3443 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3445 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3451 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3452 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3456 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3458 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3459 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3460 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3461 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3462 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3463 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3464 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3465 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3466 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3467 it is an obsolete program.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3471 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3473 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3477 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3481 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3483 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3487 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3489 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3491 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3493 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3497 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3503 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * typo: Closes, #78567
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3509 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3515 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3521 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3524 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3525 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3526 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3527 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3528 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3532 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3535 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3540 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3543 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3544 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3545 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3546 backwards-compatability.
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3550 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3553 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3554 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3555 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3556 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3557 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3558 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3560 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3561 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3562 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3564 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3566 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3567 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3568 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3569 should now be raised to severity important..
3570 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3571 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3575 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3578 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3583 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3601 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3608 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3611 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3612 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3613 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3614 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3618 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3627 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3628 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3629 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3630 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3631 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3632 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3640 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3644 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3650 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3653 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3661 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3662 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3663 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3664 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3668 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3672 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3675 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3678 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3679 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3682 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3684 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3685 the TODO entry about it.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3689 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3696 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3699 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3700 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3704 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3707 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3708 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3709 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3710 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3720 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3730 (this appears to be logal).
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3734 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3737 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3738 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3739 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3740 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3753 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3754 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3755 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3756 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3766 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3769 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3773 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3783 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3784 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3785 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3806 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3807 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3808 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3809 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3810 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3811 notice until v2 is complete.
3812 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3813 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3814 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3815 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3816 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3817 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3819 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3820 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3821 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3822 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3826 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3832 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3839 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3842 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3856 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3857 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3858 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3859 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3867 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3868 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3869 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3874 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3877 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3878 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3885 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3889 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3892 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3896 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3903 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3906 depend on the build and install targets.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3913 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3924 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3936 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3939 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3940 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3941 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3942 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3943 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3944 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3946 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3947 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3948 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3949 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3950 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3951 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3952 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3956 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3962 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3968 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3971 right place. Closes: #55065
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3985 * Copyright date updates.
3987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3989 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3991 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3992 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3997 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4003 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4010 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4016 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4022 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4031 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4032 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4033 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4034 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4035 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4036 bits until all files have been registered.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_installmanpages:
4043 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4044 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4045 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4046 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4047 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4048 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4049 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4050 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4051 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4052 otherwise change the result at all.
4054 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4055 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4056 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4057 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4058 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4063 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4069 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4072 act on files that don't exist.
4073 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4074 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4075 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4077 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4078 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4079 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4080 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4090 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4099 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4103 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4106 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4108 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4109 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4110 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4117 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4118 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4119 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4120 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4121 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4122 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4123 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4125 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4127 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4131 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4138 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4153 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4172 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4173 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4174 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4175 I made some changes, though:
4176 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4177 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4178 that is a clear violation of policy.
4179 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4180 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4181 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4182 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4183 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4184 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4185 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4186 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4187 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4189 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4202 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4209 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4210 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4221 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4223 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4231 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4232 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4233 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4234 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4235 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4236 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4237 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4241 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4247 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4251 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4252 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4265 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4269 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4272 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4273 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4279 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4288 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4292 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4295 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4296 for the dependancies to be generated.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4303 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4310 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4311 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4312 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4317 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4320 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4321 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4331 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4337 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4340 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4344 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4350 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4353 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4354 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4355 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4356 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4357 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4358 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4359 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4360 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4361 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4362 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4363 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4364 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4368 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4370 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4371 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4372 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4374 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4375 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4376 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4377 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4378 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4379 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4381 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4382 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4389 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4403 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4408 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4411 for building debhelper.
4412 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4426 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4433 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4434 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4435 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4436 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4437 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4438 it's always available.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4445 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4446 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4447 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4451 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4454 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4455 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4468 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4481 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4482 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4483 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4487 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4490 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4498 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4499 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4501 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4502 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4506 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4512 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4518 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4521 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4528 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4529 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4531 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4535 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4538 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4539 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4540 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4544 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4547 things if CDPATH is set.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4557 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4559 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4560 seems to make sense for the transition.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4567 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4572 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4575 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4576 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4583 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4587 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4589 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4590 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4591 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4592 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4593 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4597 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4606 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4607 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4608 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4609 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4610 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4611 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4612 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4613 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4614 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4615 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4620 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4623 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4624 * README: mention doc/v2
4625 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4626 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4632 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4633 be using this script RSN.
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4640 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4641 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4642 more than 1 init script.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4646 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4649 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4653 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Changed perl version detection.
4656 * Changed call to find.
4658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4660 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4662 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4663 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4665 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * Really include dh_installpam.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4679 * Wrote man page for same.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4683 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4686 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4687 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4692 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4699 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4701 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4702 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4703 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4704 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4705 x bit was being set!
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4709 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4712 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4713 well. (Closes: 38900)
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4717 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4720 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4721 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4725 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4727 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4731 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4738 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4744 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4747 help from Julian Gilbey.
4748 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4749 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4750 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4751 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4752 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4753 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4754 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4759 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4772 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4778 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4780 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4784 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4787 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4791 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4794 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4798 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4801 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4805 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4811 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4814 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4818 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4824 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4830 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4833 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4834 may be deleted. (#35845)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4838 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * Various man page enhancements.
4841 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4846 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4848 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4849 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4850 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4857 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4858 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4859 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4861 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4862 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4867 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4873 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4875 * Another very minor typo fix.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Very minor typo fix.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4885 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4888 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4889 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4893 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4902 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4903 variables properly (#34850).
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4907 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4913 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4916 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4917 (automatically generated by build process).
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4921 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4923 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4927 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4930 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4931 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4933 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4937 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4940 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4944 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4946 * README: minor typo fix.
4948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4950 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4952 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4953 leave it at that. :-)
4955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4957 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4959 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4972 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4973 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4974 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4978 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4980 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4981 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4985 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4987 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4988 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4992 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4995 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4996 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4997 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4998 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5005 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5006 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5007 Craig Small for spotting this.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5011 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5014 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5015 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5028 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5032 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5034 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5035 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5036 working on the last version of debhelper.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5040 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5043 being made. (#23255)
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5053 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5055 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5056 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5060 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5063 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5064 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5065 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5066 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5070 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5073 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5074 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5075 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5076 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5078 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5079 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5081 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5092 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5098 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5101 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5102 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5103 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5104 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5105 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5106 suidregister actually supports it.
5107 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5108 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5112 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5119 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5122 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5123 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5124 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5125 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5126 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5127 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5128 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5132 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5134 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5135 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5139 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5141 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5142 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5143 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5144 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5145 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5152 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5154 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5155 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5156 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5157 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5158 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5159 effect, either. (#30118)
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5163 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5172 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5173 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5183 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5186 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5187 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5188 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5189 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5193 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5196 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5197 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5201 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5210 packages, painlessly.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5214 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5220 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5226 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5232 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5234 * The perl conversion is complete.
5236 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5238 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5239 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5240 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5245 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5247 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5248 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5249 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5250 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5254 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5256 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5257 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5259 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5261 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5262 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5269 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5270 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5283 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5284 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5285 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5286 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5287 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5294 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5295 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5296 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5297 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5304 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5308 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5311 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5312 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5313 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5314 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5315 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5316 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5317 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5318 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5322 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5328 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5331 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5332 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5333 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5338 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5340 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5341 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5345 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5348 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5352 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5355 sections of shared libraries.
5356 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5357 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5358 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5359 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5360 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5361 things you don't want them to.
5362 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5363 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5367 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5370 shared libraries. (#26414)
5372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5374 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5376 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5377 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5378 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5379 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5383 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5387 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5389 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5390 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5391 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5392 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5393 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5397 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5400 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5404 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5406 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5407 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5408 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5413 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5416 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5420 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5422 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5423 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5424 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5425 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5426 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5427 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5429 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5430 remove debian/files properly.
5431 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5432 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5433 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5434 * Removed bogus menu file.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5438 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5441 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5445 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5448 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5449 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5450 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5451 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5452 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5453 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5460 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5461 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5462 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5463 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5467 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5474 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5476 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5477 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5478 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5480 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5481 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5482 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5483 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5484 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5485 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5489 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5492 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5493 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5494 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5495 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5496 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5497 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5498 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5499 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5500 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5501 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5502 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5503 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5504 passed any switches.
5505 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5509 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5512 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5513 at all for a long while.
5514 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5515 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5516 large chunks in the process.
5517 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5518 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5519 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5527 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5529 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5534 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5537 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5538 that don't always have the same files in them.
5539 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5540 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5541 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5549 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5550 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5551 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5552 updating 27 man pages.
5553 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5554 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5555 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5556 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5557 programs act on. (#25247)
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5561 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5565 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5566 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5567 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5568 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5569 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5570 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5575 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5577 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5582 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5584 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5589 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5592 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5596 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5602 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5605 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5606 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5607 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5608 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5609 package by accident.
5610 * Is version 1.0 next?
5612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5614 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5616 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5617 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5618 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5622 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5625 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5626 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5627 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5628 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5629 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5631 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5636 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5639 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5640 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5644 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5647 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5651 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5654 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5655 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5660 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5662 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5669 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5670 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5675 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5681 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5684 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5685 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5686 past week. Thanks, guys!
5688 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5689 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5690 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5691 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5692 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5693 would do in the same situation.
5694 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5695 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5697 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5699 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5700 permissions changed.
5701 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5702 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5703 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5704 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5705 files are treated identically.
5706 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5707 * Minor man page fixes.
5708 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5709 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5710 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5714 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5716 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5717 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5718 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5719 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5720 use -X multiple times, too.
5721 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5722 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5726 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5728 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5729 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5730 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5734 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5737 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5741 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5744 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5745 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5746 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5747 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5748 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5749 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5750 shape if you're starting a new package.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5754 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5757 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5761 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5764 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5765 because of missing symlinks.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5769 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5775 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5778 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5779 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5780 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5781 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5782 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5784 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5785 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5789 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5791 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5792 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5793 to be changed after the fact :-)
5794 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5798 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5800 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5801 no version string after the -V.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5805 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5807 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5808 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5813 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5815 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5816 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5820 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5823 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5824 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5825 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5826 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5827 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5828 I always welcome corrections!
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5832 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5838 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5840 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5841 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5842 * Documented this new switch.
5844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5846 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5848 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5849 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5850 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5851 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5852 no packages use the old behavior.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5856 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5859 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5860 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5864 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5867 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5871 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5877 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5880 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5884 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5886 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5887 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5888 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5889 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5893 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5899 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5902 into the source package by accident.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5906 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5909 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5910 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5911 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5912 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5913 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5914 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5919 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5921 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5923 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5924 inspired to implement some of it.
5925 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5929 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5932 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5936 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5939 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5940 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5944 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5946 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5947 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5948 have done.) (#17598)
5950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5952 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5954 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5958 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5964 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5966 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5967 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5971 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5974 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5975 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5982 argument processor in perl.
5983 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5984 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5985 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5986 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5990 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5992 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5993 type directories. (#16933)
5994 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5995 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5996 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5997 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5998 are supported. (#16935)
5999 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6004 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6007 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6011 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6013 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6015 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6016 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6017 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6018 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6019 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6020 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6024 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6026 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6027 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6028 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6030 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6031 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6032 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6033 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6034 a given package, or -i or -a.
6035 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6036 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6037 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6038 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6039 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6040 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6041 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6042 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6043 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6045 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6046 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6047 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6051 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6053 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6054 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6055 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6063 does not have a section.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6070 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6071 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6072 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6076 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6078 * Fixed typo #16215.
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6082 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6085 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6086 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6087 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6088 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6089 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6097 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6098 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6099 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6104 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6110 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6116 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6119 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6120 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6121 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6122 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6123 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6124 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6128 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6137 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6141 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6144 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6145 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6146 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6150 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6153 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6157 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6163 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6165 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6166 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6170 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6172 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6173 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6177 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6183 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6185 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6186 postinst, postrm, etc.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6190 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6196 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6198 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6199 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6200 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6201 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6202 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6203 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6207 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6210 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6211 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6215 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6218 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6222 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6225 installing package files into.
6226 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6231 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6233 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6235 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6239 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6245 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6248 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6252 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6255 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6256 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6257 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6258 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6262 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6264 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6265 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6266 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6267 multiple binary packages.
6268 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6269 should rebuild them with this version.
6270 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6274 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6277 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6281 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6283 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6284 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6288 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6290 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6291 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6292 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6293 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6294 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6295 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6296 debian/README.debian.
6297 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6298 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6299 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6300 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6301 in a few situations.)
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6305 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6311 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6313 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6317 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6319 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6320 * Fixed several man pages.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6324 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6327 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6328 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6332 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6335 is ready for general use.
6336 * Added man pages for all commands.
6337 * Multiple binary package support.
6338 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6339 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6340 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6342 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6343 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6344 auto-installed as parameters.
6345 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6347 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6350 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6351 the package build directory it is to act on.
6352 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6353 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6354 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6358 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6360 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6361 ready to replace debstd.
6363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400