1 debhelper (7.4.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Updated French translation.
4 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatability
5 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
6 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
7 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
9 * Typo. Closes: #571968
10 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
11 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
12 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
13 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
14 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
15 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
16 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
17 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
18 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:27 -0500
23 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
25 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
26 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
27 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
29 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
31 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
33 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
34 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
38 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
41 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
45 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
48 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
49 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
50 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
51 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
52 options that they do not support.
53 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
54 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
55 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
56 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
57 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
58 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
63 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
67 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
68 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
69 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
70 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
71 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
72 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
73 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
74 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
75 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
79 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
82 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
83 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
84 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
85 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
89 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Typo. Closes: #558654
92 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
93 installed. Closes: #558782
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
97 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
100 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
101 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
102 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
103 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
104 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
108 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
110 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
111 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
112 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
113 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
117 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
120 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
121 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
125 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
127 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
131 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
133 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
134 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
135 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
136 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
137 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
138 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
139 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
140 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
141 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
142 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
143 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
144 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
145 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
146 time soon.) Closes: #554509
147 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
149 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
150 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
151 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
152 document id. Closes: #555677
153 * Typo. Closes: #555659
154 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
155 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
156 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
157 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
159 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
160 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
161 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
166 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
169 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
170 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
171 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
172 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
173 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
174 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
175 translation (#494300 part 2)
178 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
180 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
181 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
182 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
183 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
184 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
188 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
191 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
192 (It was only run once due to logging.)
193 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
194 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
195 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
196 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
197 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
198 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
199 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
200 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
201 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
202 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
206 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
210 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
213 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
214 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
218 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
221 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
222 flag with arch all/any packages.
223 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
224 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
225 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
226 situation. Closes: #540794
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
230 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
234 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
235 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
236 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
237 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
238 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
241 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
242 the default. Closes: #538201
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
247 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
251 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
252 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
253 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
254 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
255 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
257 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
258 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
259 * Above Closes: #491117
260 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
265 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
271 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
272 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
273 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
277 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
280 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
281 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
282 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
283 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
284 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
289 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
292 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
293 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
297 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
299 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
303 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
305 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
306 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
308 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
309 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
310 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
314 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
316 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
317 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
321 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
327 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
329 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
330 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
331 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
336 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
338 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
342 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
345 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
346 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
347 created by using `python' first during build and install.
349 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
354 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
356 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
360 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
362 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
363 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
367 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
369 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
373 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
375 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
379 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
381 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
382 contributed by Modestas Vainius
383 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
384 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
385 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
386 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
387 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
388 that support it. Closes: #480577
389 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
390 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
391 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
393 - Adds support for cmake.
394 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
395 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
397 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
399 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
400 that use them. The options are:
401 --sourcedir, --destdir
402 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
403 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
404 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
405 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
406 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
410 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
419 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
420 default. Closes: #537140
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
424 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
427 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
428 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
432 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
434 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
435 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
439 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
441 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
442 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
446 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
449 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
451 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
452 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
453 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
457 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
460 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
461 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
462 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
469 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
470 warning or deprecation message.
471 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
472 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
473 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
474 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
475 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
476 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
477 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
478 Closes: #534639, #357434
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
482 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
488 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
491 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
492 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
493 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
494 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
496 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
497 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
498 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
502 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
508 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
515 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
518 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
522 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
526 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
527 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
529 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
530 file support. Closes: #494914
531 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
538 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
539 parameters. Closes: #527256
540 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
541 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
542 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
550 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
551 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
552 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
556 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
559 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
560 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
561 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
565 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
568 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
569 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
571 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
572 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
573 by triggers). Closes: #521181
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
577 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
581 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
585 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
588 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
589 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
590 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
591 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
596 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
602 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
605 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
606 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
607 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
608 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
609 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
611 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
612 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
613 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
614 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
615 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
616 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
620 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
623 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
624 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
625 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
626 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
627 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
629 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
633 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
635 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
639 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
641 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
642 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
643 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
644 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
645 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
646 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
647 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
648 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
649 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
650 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
651 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
655 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
657 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
658 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
660 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
661 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
662 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
663 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
665 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
666 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
670 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
672 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
673 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
674 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
675 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
676 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
677 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
678 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
680 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
681 that uses them. Affected options are:
682 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
683 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
684 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
685 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
686 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
687 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
688 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
689 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
690 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
691 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
692 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
693 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
697 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
704 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
710 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
712 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
713 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
715 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
716 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
717 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
718 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
719 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
721 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
723 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
724 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
725 rules (see bug #509756).
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
729 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
735 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
736 * Typo. Closes: #493062
737 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
738 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
742 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
745 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
746 empty files. Closes: #490937
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
750 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
756 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
763 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
766 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
767 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
768 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
769 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
774 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
776 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
777 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
778 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
779 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
783 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
786 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
787 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
788 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
789 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
790 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
794 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
801 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
803 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
804 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
805 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
806 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
807 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
808 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
809 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
810 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
811 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
812 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
816 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
819 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
820 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
821 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
822 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
824 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
825 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
826 breaking backwards compatibility.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
830 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
833 message in perl 5.10.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
837 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
843 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Convert copyright file to new format.
846 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
850 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
853 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
857 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
859 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
860 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
861 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
862 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
863 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
864 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
865 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
866 logging by dh_listpackages.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
870 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
873 run and there are no packages of that type.
874 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
875 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
876 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
877 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
879 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
880 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
884 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
886 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
887 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
888 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
892 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
895 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
896 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
898 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
899 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
900 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
901 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
902 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
903 planned but not yet implemented.)
904 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
905 if the Makefile has such a target.
906 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
907 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
908 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
909 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
910 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
911 but not yet implemented.)
912 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
913 recommended default, especially when using dh.
914 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
915 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
916 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
918 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
920 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
921 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
923 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
924 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
925 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
930 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
933 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
934 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
938 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
940 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
941 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
942 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
946 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
952 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
958 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
961 just those installed by the program.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
965 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
967 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
968 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
969 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
973 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
976 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
977 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
978 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
979 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
983 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
986 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
987 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
991 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
994 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
995 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
999 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1002 with policy. Closes: #461392
1003 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1004 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1005 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1006 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1007 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1011 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1014 Closes: #460340, #460351
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1018 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1021 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1022 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1023 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1024 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1028 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1031 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1032 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1033 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1034 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1035 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1036 package build directory won't work.
1037 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1038 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1039 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1040 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1041 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1042 mode. Closes: #459426
1043 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1051 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1055 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1059 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1060 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1061 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1062 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1063 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1064 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1068 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1071 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1072 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1073 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1074 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1078 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1081 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1082 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1083 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1084 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1085 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1089 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1092 debian/package.triggers files.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1096 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1099 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1103 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1106 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1107 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1108 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1109 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1114 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1117 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1121 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1124 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1125 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1127 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1132 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1136 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1137 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1138 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1142 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1149 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1156 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1159 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1161 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1162 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1163 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1165 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1166 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1167 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1171 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1173 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1174 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1175 * Update urls to web page.
1176 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1177 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1178 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1179 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1183 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1186 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1187 - typo in alternatives call
1188 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1190 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1191 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1195 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1198 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1203 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1209 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1215 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1218 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1220 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1221 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1222 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1223 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1224 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1225 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1226 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1227 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1228 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1229 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1230 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1234 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1237 package install. Closes: #415717
1238 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1239 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1240 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1241 script and then remove the python files.
1242 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1243 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1244 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1245 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1246 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1247 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1248 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1249 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1250 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1251 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1252 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1253 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1254 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1258 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Correct typo in french translation
1264 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1265 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1267 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1269 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1270 Closes: #406921, #381940
1271 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1273 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1274 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1275 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1276 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1277 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1278 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1279 specified). Closes: #381851
1280 * Misc minor changes.
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1284 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1291 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1292 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1296 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1302 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1303 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1306 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1307 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1309 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1310 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1311 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1312 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1316 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1319 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1322 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1326 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1332 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1338 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1339 a difficult situation.
1340 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1341 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1342 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1343 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1344 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1345 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1346 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1347 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1348 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1349 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1353 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Non-maintainer upload.
1356 * Update of dh_python
1357 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1358 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1360 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1361 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1362 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1363 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1364 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1366 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1368 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Non-maintainer upload.
1371 * Update of dh_python
1372 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1373 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1374 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1375 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1376 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1377 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1378 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1379 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1380 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1381 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1383 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1384 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1385 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1386 the not too-distant future).
1387 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1388 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1389 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1390 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1391 thus made the build fail.
1393 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1395 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Non-maintainer upload.
1398 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1400 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1402 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1405 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1406 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1407 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1408 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1409 package. Closes: #301424
1410 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1411 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1412 fonts). Closes: #372686
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1416 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1422 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1423 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1424 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1425 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1426 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1427 above, but already depends on that.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1431 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1434 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1435 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1436 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1437 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1438 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1442 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1448 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1454 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1455 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1459 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1462 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1466 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1470 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1471 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1472 new version (0.24.1).
1473 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1474 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1477 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1478 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1479 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1480 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1481 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1482 new directory on their own.
1483 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1484 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1488 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1491 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1492 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1493 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1494 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1498 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1501 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1502 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1503 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1504 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1505 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1509 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1515 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1519 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1520 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1524 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1525 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1531 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1532 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1534 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1535 ignored. Closes: #337664
1537 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1542 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1548 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1553 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1554 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1555 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1556 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1557 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1558 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1559 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1563 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1566 version. Closes: #350607
1567 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1568 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1569 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1570 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1574 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1577 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1578 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1579 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1583 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1590 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1596 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1599 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1603 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1606 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1607 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1608 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1609 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1610 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1611 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1615 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1618 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1619 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1624 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1627 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1631 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1634 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1641 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1642 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1643 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1644 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1645 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1646 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1650 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1654 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1655 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1656 link. Closes: #346405
1657 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1659 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1660 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1661 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1662 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1663 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1664 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1665 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1669 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1676 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1685 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1689 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1692 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1697 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1701 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1702 installed. Closes: #342033
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1706 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1709 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1710 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1711 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1722 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1728 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1732 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1733 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1734 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1738 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1741 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1759 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1762 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1763 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1764 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1765 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1766 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1767 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1768 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1770 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1774 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1777 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1778 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1785 in standard man dirs.
1786 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1790 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1799 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1804 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1818 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1821 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1822 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1829 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1830 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1831 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1833 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1835 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1841 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1850 mode. Closes: #324161
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1857 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1858 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1859 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1860 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1865 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1868 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1869 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1870 is necesary for sanity.
1871 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1872 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1877 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1879 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1880 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1887 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1891 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1900 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1901 released, so use at your own risk.
1902 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1903 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1905 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1906 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1907 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1908 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1909 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1910 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1911 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1912 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1913 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1914 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1915 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1916 including twice per config file line now..
1917 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1918 and simplfy the rules file.
1919 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1920 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1921 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1923 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1924 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1928 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1931 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1938 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1945 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1952 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1953 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1954 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1955 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1956 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1957 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1964 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1965 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1966 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1974 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1975 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1980 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1983 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1984 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1985 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1990 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1993 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1994 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1995 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2005 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2012 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2015 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2016 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2017 unknown. Closes: #282924
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2021 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Spanish man page updates.
2031 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2036 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2042 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2045 * dh_desktop: reindent
2046 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2047 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2051 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2057 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2059 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2063 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2065 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2069 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2072 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2073 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2077 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2083 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2096 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2099 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2106 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2107 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2108 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2109 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2110 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2111 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2113 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2114 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2115 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2116 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2117 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2118 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2119 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2120 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2121 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2122 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2123 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2124 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2125 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2126 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2127 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2128 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2139 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2142 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2146 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2149 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2156 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2163 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2173 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2179 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2185 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2188 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2189 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2190 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2194 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2197 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2201 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2204 but occasionally right and necessary.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2211 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2212 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2213 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2214 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2215 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2219 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2222 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2224 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2225 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2226 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2227 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2228 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2229 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2230 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2231 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2232 postinst scripts for udebs.
2233 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2240 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2242 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2243 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2247 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2260 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2267 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2270 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2274 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2277 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2281 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2284 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2287 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2288 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2292 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2301 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2308 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2309 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2310 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2312 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2314 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2315 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2316 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2323 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2328 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2331 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2332 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2333 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2338 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2344 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2350 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2353 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2354 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2355 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2356 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2357 associated -dbg packages.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2364 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2371 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2378 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2385 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2393 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2397 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2400 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2405 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2408 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2412 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2416 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2417 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2418 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2419 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2420 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2421 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2422 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2423 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2424 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2425 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2432 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2437 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2440 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2441 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2448 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2449 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2457 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2464 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2471 out section number. Closes: #204731
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2488 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2497 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2498 removal. Closes: #204286
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2502 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2505 renaming. Closes: #203548
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2512 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2513 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2517 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2523 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2529 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2535 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2538 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2539 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2540 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2544 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2547 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2548 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2565 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2568 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2576 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2583 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2585 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2586 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2590 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2593 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2598 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2601 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2605 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2611 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2613 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2617 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2620 it break hard links (see #188663).
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2624 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2627 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2637 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2641 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2642 debconf-mergetemplates
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2646 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2649 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2653 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2656 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2660 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2663 * Update debhelper(1).
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2667 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2670 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2671 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2672 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2673 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2674 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2678 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2681 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2682 the shell. Closes: #178524
2683 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2687 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2690 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2694 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2697 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2704 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2705 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2706 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2707 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2712 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2715 files from installation.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2719 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2722 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2723 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2727 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2730 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2737 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2741 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2747 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2753 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2757 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2758 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2760 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2764 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2767 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2768 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2769 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2770 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2774 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2777 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2781 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2784 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2785 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2789 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2793 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2804 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2808 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2809 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2810 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2818 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2819 practice. Closes: #163303
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2823 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2829 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2836 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2839 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2841 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2842 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2843 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2844 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2845 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2849 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2852 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2857 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2863 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2873 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2878 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2896 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2903 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2906 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2907 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2908 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2909 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2914 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2920 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2930 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2931 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2935 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2938 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2939 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2940 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2941 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2942 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2949 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2951 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2956 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2959 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2963 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2966 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2967 right thing. Closes: #150644
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2971 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Stupid, evil typo.
2974 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2988 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2989 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2994 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3000 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3003 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3010 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3011 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3016 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3019 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3023 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3032 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3033 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3037 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Removing perl warning message.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3052 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3053 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3054 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3055 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3056 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3057 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3058 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3059 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3063 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3069 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3076 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3079 debconf-mergetemplate.
3080 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3081 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3085 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3088 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3089 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3090 dh_install, which ...
3091 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3092 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3093 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3094 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3095 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3096 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3097 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3098 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3099 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3100 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3101 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3102 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3103 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3104 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3105 other minor changes.
3106 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3107 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3108 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3109 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3110 course there's -X ..)
3111 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3112 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3113 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3115 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3116 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3117 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3118 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3119 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3124 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3130 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3133 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3137 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3143 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3149 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3155 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3161 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3164 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3165 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3166 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3167 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3169 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3170 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3174 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3180 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3183 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3187 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3190 upset. Closes: #131322
3192 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3194 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3197 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3198 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3199 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3200 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3201 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3202 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3203 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3204 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3205 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3206 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3207 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3208 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3209 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3210 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3211 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3213 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3217 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3220 - Better indenting of generated code.
3221 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3225 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3229 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3230 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3231 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3232 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3233 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3234 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3235 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3239 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3242 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3246 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3249 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3250 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3251 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3252 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3253 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3254 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3255 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3256 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3257 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3258 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3259 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3260 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3261 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3262 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3263 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3268 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3274 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3277 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3278 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3282 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3285 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3286 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3290 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3296 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3299 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3300 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3301 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3302 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3303 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3308 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3314 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3317 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3321 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3324 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3329 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3335 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3338 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3342 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3348 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3352 Also some indentation fixes.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3356 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3359 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3360 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3361 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3362 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3363 Closes: #106514, #85520
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3367 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3373 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3385 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3391 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3397 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3400 change it in debhelper v4..
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3410 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3413 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3417 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3420 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3424 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3430 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3433 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3434 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3435 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3436 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3437 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3438 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3439 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3440 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3441 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3442 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3443 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3444 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3451 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3465 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3466 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3467 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3468 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3469 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3470 program those options go to. So, for example,
3471 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3472 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3473 something complex. Closes: #89311
3474 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3478 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3481 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3482 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3483 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3487 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3490 through loop. Closes: #98598
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3494 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * Missing semi-colon.
3497 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3498 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3502 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3505 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3506 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3507 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3511 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3514 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3515 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3519 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3522 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3526 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3529 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3530 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3534 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3537 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3538 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3539 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3543 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3546 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3547 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3548 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3552 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3555 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3559 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3565 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3571 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3577 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3583 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3586 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3590 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3593 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3594 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3595 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3596 followed. Closes: #85483
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3600 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3602 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3603 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3604 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3608 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3611 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3612 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3613 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3614 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3615 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3616 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3617 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3618 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3619 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3620 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3621 Closes: #88464, #77743
3622 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3623 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3624 us to deal with that gracefully.
3625 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3627 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3628 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3629 a while, Closes: #51225
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3633 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3639 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3642 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3646 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3650 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3655 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3658 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3659 don't make packlist files.
3660 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3661 debhelper coding standards.
3662 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3663 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3667 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3670 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3674 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3677 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3678 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3679 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3680 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3681 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3682 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3683 but is mildly deprecated.
3684 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3685 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3686 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3687 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3688 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3689 switching to statoverrides..
3690 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3691 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3692 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3693 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3694 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3695 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3697 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3698 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3699 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3700 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3701 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3702 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3703 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3704 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3705 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3707 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3708 variable names, pod man pages).
3709 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3710 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3711 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3712 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3713 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3714 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3715 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3719 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3732 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3735 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3741 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3742 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3743 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3747 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3749 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3750 they were previously ignored.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3756 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3757 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3763 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3764 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3765 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3769 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3771 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3775 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3777 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3778 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3782 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3784 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3785 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3786 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3787 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3788 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3789 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3790 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3791 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3792 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3793 it is an obsolete program.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3799 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3807 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3809 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3813 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3815 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3817 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3819 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3823 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3829 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * typo: Closes, #78567
3833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3835 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3837 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3841 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3843 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3847 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3850 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3851 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3852 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3853 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3854 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3858 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3860 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3861 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3869 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3870 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3871 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3872 backwards-compatibility.
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3876 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3879 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3880 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3881 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3882 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3883 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3884 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3886 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3887 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3888 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3890 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3892 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3893 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3894 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3895 should now be raised to severity important..
3896 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3897 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3904 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3921 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3927 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3937 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3938 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3939 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3940 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3944 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3950 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3953 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3954 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3955 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3956 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3957 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3958 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3963 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3966 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3970 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3976 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3979 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3984 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3987 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3988 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3989 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3990 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3994 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3998 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4001 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4004 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4005 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4008 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4010 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4011 the TODO entry about it.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4015 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4025 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4026 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4033 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4034 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4035 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4036 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4053 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4056 (this appears to be logal).
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4063 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4064 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4065 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4066 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4079 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4080 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4081 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4082 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4095 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4109 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4110 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4111 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4116 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4123 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4129 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4132 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4133 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4134 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4135 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4136 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4137 notice until v2 is complete.
4138 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4139 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4140 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4141 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4142 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4143 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4145 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4146 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4147 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4148 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4152 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4158 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4165 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4168 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4172 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4179 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4182 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4183 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4184 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4185 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4193 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4194 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4195 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4203 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4204 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4208 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4211 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4218 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4232 depend on the build and install targets.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4239 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4250 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4256 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4262 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4265 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4266 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4267 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4268 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4269 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4270 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4272 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4273 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4274 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4275 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4276 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4277 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4278 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4282 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4288 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4294 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4297 right place. Closes: #55065
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4301 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4308 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4311 * Copyright date updates.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4315 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4318 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4323 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4329 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4342 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4348 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4354 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4357 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4358 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4359 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4360 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4361 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4362 bits until all files have been registered.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * dh_installmanpages:
4369 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4370 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4371 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4372 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4373 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4374 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4375 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4376 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4377 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4378 otherwise change the result at all.
4380 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4381 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4382 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4383 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4384 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4389 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4395 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4398 act on files that don't exist.
4399 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4400 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4401 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4403 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4404 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4405 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4406 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4416 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4422 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4425 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4429 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4431 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4432 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4434 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4435 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4436 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4440 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4443 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4444 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4445 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4446 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4447 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4448 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4449 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4451 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4453 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4457 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4459 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4464 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4479 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4483 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4498 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4499 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4500 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4501 I made some changes, though:
4502 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4503 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4504 that is a clear violation of policy.
4505 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4506 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4507 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4508 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4509 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4510 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4511 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4512 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4513 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4515 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4519 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4528 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4532 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4535 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4536 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4554 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4556 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4557 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4558 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4559 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4560 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4561 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4562 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4563 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4567 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4569 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4575 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4577 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4578 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4591 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4598 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4599 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4605 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4610 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4614 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4621 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4622 for the dependancies to be generated.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4629 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4636 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4637 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4638 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4646 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4647 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4651 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4653 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4657 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4663 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4666 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4670 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4672 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4679 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4680 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4681 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4682 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4683 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4684 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4685 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4686 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4687 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4688 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4689 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4690 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4694 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4696 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4697 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4698 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4700 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4701 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4702 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4703 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4704 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4705 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4707 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4708 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4715 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4729 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4737 for building debhelper.
4738 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4742 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4749 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4752 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4756 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4758 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4759 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4760 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4761 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4762 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4763 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4764 it's always available.
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4771 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4772 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4773 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4780 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4781 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4785 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4794 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4804 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4806 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4807 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4808 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4809 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4816 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4824 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4825 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4827 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4828 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4838 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4840 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4844 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4846 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4847 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4851 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4854 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4855 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4857 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4861 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4864 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4865 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4866 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4870 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4873 things if CDPATH is set.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4886 seems to make sense for the transition.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4893 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4898 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4901 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4902 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4906 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4909 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4913 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4916 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4917 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4918 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4919 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4923 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4929 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4932 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4933 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4934 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4935 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4936 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4937 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4938 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4939 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4940 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4941 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4946 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4948 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4949 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4950 * README: mention doc/v2
4951 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4952 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4958 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4959 be using this script RSN.
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4966 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4967 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4968 more than 1 init script.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4975 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * Changed perl version detection.
4982 * Changed call to find.
4984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4986 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4988 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4989 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4991 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4996 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Really include dh_installpam.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5002 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5005 * Wrote man page for same.
5007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5009 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5011 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5012 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5013 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5018 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5020 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5025 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5028 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5029 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5030 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5031 x bit was being set!
5033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5035 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5037 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5038 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5039 well. (Closes: 38900)
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5046 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5047 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5051 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5064 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5066 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5073 help from Julian Gilbey.
5074 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5075 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5076 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5077 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5078 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5079 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5080 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5085 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5087 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5091 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5098 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5104 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5106 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5110 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5112 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5113 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5117 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5120 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5124 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5127 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5131 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5137 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5140 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5144 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5159 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5160 may be deleted. (#35845)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5164 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * Various man page enhancements.
5167 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5172 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5175 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5176 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5180 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5182 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5183 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5184 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5185 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5187 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5188 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5193 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5195 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * Another very minor typo fix.
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * Very minor typo fix.
5209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5211 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5213 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5214 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5215 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5228 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5229 variables properly (#34850).
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5242 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5243 (automatically generated by build process).
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5247 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5249 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5256 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5257 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5259 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5266 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * README: minor typo fix.
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5276 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5279 leave it at that. :-)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5295 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5298 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5299 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5300 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5304 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5306 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5307 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5314 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5318 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5321 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5322 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5323 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5324 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5331 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5332 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5333 Craig Small for spotting this.
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5340 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5341 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5351 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5354 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5358 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5360 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5361 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5362 working on the last version of debhelper.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5369 being made. (#23255)
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5382 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5389 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5390 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5391 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5392 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5396 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5398 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5399 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5400 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5401 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5402 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5404 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5405 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5407 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5412 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5414 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5418 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5427 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5428 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5429 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5430 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5431 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5432 suidregister actually supports it.
5433 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5434 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5438 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5445 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5448 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5449 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5450 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5451 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5452 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5453 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5454 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5458 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5460 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5461 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5468 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5469 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5470 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5471 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5475 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5478 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5480 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5481 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5482 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5483 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5484 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5485 effect, either. (#30118)
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5495 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5497 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5498 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5499 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5503 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5509 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5512 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5513 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5514 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5515 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5519 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5521 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5522 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5523 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5527 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5536 packages, painlessly.
5538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5540 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5542 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5546 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5548 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5552 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5554 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5558 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * The perl conversion is complete.
5562 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5564 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5565 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5566 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5571 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5573 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5574 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5575 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5576 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5580 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5583 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5585 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5587 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5588 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5592 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5594 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5595 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5596 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5600 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5606 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5609 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5610 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5611 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5612 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5613 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5617 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5620 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5621 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5622 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5623 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5627 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5630 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5634 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5637 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5638 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5639 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5640 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5641 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5642 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5643 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5644 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5654 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5656 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5657 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5658 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5659 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5664 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5667 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5671 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5673 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5674 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5681 sections of shared libraries.
5682 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5683 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5684 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5685 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5686 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5687 things you don't want them to.
5688 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5689 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5696 shared libraries. (#26414)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5702 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5703 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5704 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5705 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5713 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5715 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5716 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5717 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5718 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5719 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5723 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5725 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5726 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5733 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5734 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5739 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5742 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5746 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5748 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5749 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5750 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5751 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5752 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5753 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5755 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5756 remove debian/files properly.
5757 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5758 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5759 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5760 * Removed bogus menu file.
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5764 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5766 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5767 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5771 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5774 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5775 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5776 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5777 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5778 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5779 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5783 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5786 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5787 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5788 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5789 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5793 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5795 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5800 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5802 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5803 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5804 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5806 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5807 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5808 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5809 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5810 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5811 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5815 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5818 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5819 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5820 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5821 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5822 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5823 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5824 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5825 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5826 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5827 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5828 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5829 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5830 passed any switches.
5831 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5835 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5838 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5839 at all for a long while.
5840 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5841 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5842 large chunks in the process.
5843 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5844 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5845 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5850 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5853 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5855 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5860 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5862 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5863 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5864 that don't always have the same files in them.
5865 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5866 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5867 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5871 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5875 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5876 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5877 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5878 updating 27 man pages.
5879 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5880 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5881 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5882 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5883 programs act on. (#25247)
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5887 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5891 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5892 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5893 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5894 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5895 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5896 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5901 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5903 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5908 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5915 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5917 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5918 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5922 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5928 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5930 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5931 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5932 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5933 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5934 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5935 package by accident.
5936 * Is version 1.0 next?
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5940 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5943 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5944 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5948 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5950 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5951 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5952 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5953 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5954 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5955 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5957 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5965 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5966 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5970 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5972 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5973 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5977 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5980 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5981 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5986 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5992 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5995 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5996 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6001 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6007 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6009 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6010 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6011 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6012 past week. Thanks, guys!
6014 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6015 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6016 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6017 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6018 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6019 would do in the same situation.
6020 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6021 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6023 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6025 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6026 permissions changed.
6027 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6028 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6029 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6030 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6031 files are treated identically.
6032 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6033 * Minor man page fixes.
6034 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6035 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6036 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6040 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6043 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6044 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6045 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6046 use -X multiple times, too.
6047 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6048 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6052 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6055 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6056 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6060 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6063 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6067 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6070 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6071 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6072 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6073 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6074 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6075 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6076 shape if you're starting a new package.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6080 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6083 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6087 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6089 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6090 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6091 because of missing symlinks.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6095 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6101 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6103 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6104 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6105 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6106 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6107 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6108 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6110 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6111 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6115 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6117 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6118 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6119 to be changed after the fact :-)
6120 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6124 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6126 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6127 no version string after the -V.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6131 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6133 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6134 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6139 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6141 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6142 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6146 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6148 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6149 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6150 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6151 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6152 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6153 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6154 I always welcome corrections!
6156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6158 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6160 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6164 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6167 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6168 * Documented this new switch.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6172 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6175 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6176 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6177 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6178 no packages use the old behavior.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6182 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6184 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6185 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6186 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6190 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6193 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6197 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6206 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6210 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6213 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6214 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6215 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6219 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6228 into the source package by accident.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6235 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6236 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6237 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6238 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6239 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6240 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6245 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6249 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6250 inspired to implement some of it.
6251 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6255 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6258 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6262 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6264 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6265 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6266 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6270 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6272 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6273 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6274 have done.) (#17598)
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6278 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6284 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6286 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6290 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6293 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6297 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6299 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6300 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6301 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6305 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6307 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6308 argument processor in perl.
6309 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6310 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6311 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6312 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6316 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6318 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6319 type directories. (#16933)
6320 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6321 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6322 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6323 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6324 are supported. (#16935)
6325 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6330 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6333 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6341 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6342 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6343 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6344 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6345 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6346 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6350 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6352 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6353 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6354 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6356 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6357 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6358 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6359 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6360 a given package, or -i or -a.
6361 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6362 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6363 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6364 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6365 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6366 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6367 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6368 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6369 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6371 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6372 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6373 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6377 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6379 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6380 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6381 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6389 does not have a section.
6391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6393 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6395 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6396 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6397 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6398 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6402 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6404 * Fixed typo #16215.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6411 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6412 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6413 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6414 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6415 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6420 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6422 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6423 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6424 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6425 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6436 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6438 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6442 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6444 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6445 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6446 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6447 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6448 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6449 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6450 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6454 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6456 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6463 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6467 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6469 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6470 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6471 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6472 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6476 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6478 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6479 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6483 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6485 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6489 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6491 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6492 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6496 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6498 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6499 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6509 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6511 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6512 postinst, postrm, etc.
6514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6516 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6518 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6522 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6524 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6525 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6526 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6527 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6528 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6529 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6533 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6535 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6536 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6537 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6544 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6548 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6551 installing package files into.
6552 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6557 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6559 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6561 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6565 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6567 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6571 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6573 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6574 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6578 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6580 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6581 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6582 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6583 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6584 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6588 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6590 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6591 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6592 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6593 multiple binary packages.
6594 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6595 should rebuild them with this version.
6596 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6600 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6602 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6603 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6607 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6610 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6614 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6616 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6617 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6618 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6619 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6620 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6621 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6622 debian/README.debian.
6623 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6624 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6625 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6626 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6627 in a few situations.)
6629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6631 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6633 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6637 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6639 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6643 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6645 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6646 * Fixed several man pages.
6648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6650 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6652 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6653 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6654 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6658 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6661 is ready for general use.
6662 * Added man pages for all commands.
6663 * Multiple binary package support.
6664 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6665 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6666 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6668 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6669 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6670 auto-installed as parameters.
6671 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6673 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6676 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6677 the package build directory it is to act on.
6678 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6679 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6680 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6684 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6686 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6687 ready to replace debstd.
6689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400