1 debhelper (7.9.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look, will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated and unused command.
17 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
18 (genesis) still uses them.
19 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
20 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
21 * In v8 mode, dh expects the sequence to run is always its first parameter.
22 (Ie, use "dh $@ --foo", not "dh --foo $@")
23 This avoids ambiguities when parsing options to be passed on to debhelper
24 commands. (See #570039)
25 * dh_installchangelogs: Support packages placing their changelog in a
26 file with a name like HISTORY. Closes: #582749
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
30 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
34 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
35 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
36 in control file or debhelper config files.
37 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
41 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
44 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
45 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
49 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
52 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
56 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
59 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
60 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
64 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Updated French translation.
67 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
68 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
69 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
70 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
72 * Typo. Closes: #571968
73 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
74 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
75 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
76 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
77 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
78 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
79 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
80 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
81 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
83 * dh: Improve documentation.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
87 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
89 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
90 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
91 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
95 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
98 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
102 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
105 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
109 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
111 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
112 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
113 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
114 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
115 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
116 options that they do not support.
117 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
118 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
119 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
120 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
121 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
122 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
127 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
131 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
132 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
133 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
134 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
135 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
136 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
137 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
138 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
139 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
143 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
146 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
147 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
148 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
149 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
153 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Typo. Closes: #558654
156 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
157 installed. Closes: #558782
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
161 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
164 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
165 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
166 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
167 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
168 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
172 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
174 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
175 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
176 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
177 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
181 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
184 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
185 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
191 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
195 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
197 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
198 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
199 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
200 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
201 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
202 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
203 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
204 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
205 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
206 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
207 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
208 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
209 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
210 time soon.) Closes: #554509
211 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
213 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
214 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
215 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
216 document id. Closes: #555677
217 * Typo. Closes: #555659
218 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
219 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
220 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
221 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
223 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
224 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
225 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
230 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
233 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
234 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
235 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
236 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
237 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
238 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
239 translation (#494300 part 2)
242 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
244 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
245 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
246 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
247 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
248 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
252 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
255 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
256 (It was only run once due to logging.)
257 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
258 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
259 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
260 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
261 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
262 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
263 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
264 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
265 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
266 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
270 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
274 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
277 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
278 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
282 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
284 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
285 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
286 flag with arch all/any packages.
287 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
288 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
289 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
290 situation. Closes: #540794
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
294 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
298 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
299 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
300 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
301 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
302 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
305 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
306 the default. Closes: #538201
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
311 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
315 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
316 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
317 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
318 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
319 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
321 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
322 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
323 * Above Closes: #491117
324 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
329 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
335 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
336 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
337 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
341 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
344 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
345 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
346 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
347 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
348 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
353 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
356 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
357 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
363 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
367 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
369 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
370 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
372 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
373 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
374 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
378 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
380 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
381 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
385 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
391 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
393 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
394 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
395 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
400 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
402 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
406 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
409 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
410 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
411 created by using `python' first during build and install.
413 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
418 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
420 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
424 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
426 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
427 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
431 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
433 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
437 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
439 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
443 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
445 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
446 contributed by Modestas Vainius
447 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
448 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
449 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
450 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
451 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
452 that support it. Closes: #480577
453 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
454 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
455 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
457 - Adds support for cmake.
458 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
459 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
461 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
463 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
464 that use them. The options are:
465 --sourcedir, --destdir
466 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
467 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
468 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
469 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
470 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
474 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
480 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
483 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
484 default. Closes: #537140
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
488 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
491 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
492 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
496 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
499 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
503 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
506 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
510 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
513 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
515 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
516 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
517 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
521 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
524 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
525 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
526 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
530 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
533 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
534 warning or deprecation message.
535 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
536 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
537 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
538 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
539 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
540 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
541 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
542 Closes: #534639, #357434
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
552 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
554 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
555 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
556 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
557 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
558 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
560 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
561 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
562 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
579 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
582 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
586 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
590 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
591 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
593 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
594 file support. Closes: #494914
595 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
599 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
601 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
602 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
603 parameters. Closes: #527256
604 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
605 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
606 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
610 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
614 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
615 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
616 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
620 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
623 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
624 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
625 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
629 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
632 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
633 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
635 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
636 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
637 by triggers). Closes: #521181
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
641 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
645 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
649 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
652 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
653 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
654 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
655 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
666 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
669 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
670 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
671 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
672 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
673 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
675 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
676 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
677 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
678 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
679 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
680 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
684 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
687 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
688 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
689 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
690 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
691 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
693 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
697 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
699 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
703 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
705 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
706 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
707 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
708 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
709 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
710 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
711 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
712 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
713 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
714 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
715 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
719 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
721 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
722 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
724 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
725 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
726 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
727 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
729 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
730 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
734 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
736 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
737 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
738 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
739 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
740 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
741 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
742 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
744 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
745 that uses them. Affected options are:
746 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
747 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
748 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
749 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
750 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
751 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
752 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
753 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
754 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
755 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
756 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
757 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
761 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
768 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
774 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
776 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
777 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
779 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
780 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
781 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
782 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
783 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
785 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
787 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
788 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
789 rules (see bug #509756).
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
793 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
799 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
800 * Typo. Closes: #493062
801 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
802 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
806 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
809 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
810 empty files. Closes: #490937
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
820 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
827 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
830 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
831 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
832 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
833 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
838 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
840 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
841 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
842 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
843 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
847 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
850 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
851 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
852 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
853 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
854 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
858 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
865 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
867 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
868 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
869 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
870 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
871 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
872 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
873 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
874 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
875 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
876 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
880 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
883 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
884 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
885 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
886 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
888 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
889 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
890 breaking backwards compatibility.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
894 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
897 message in perl 5.10.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
907 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Convert copyright file to new format.
910 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
914 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
917 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
921 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
923 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
924 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
925 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
926 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
927 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
928 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
929 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
930 logging by dh_listpackages.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
934 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
937 run and there are no packages of that type.
938 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
939 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
940 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
941 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
943 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
944 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
948 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
950 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
951 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
952 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
956 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
959 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
960 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
962 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
963 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
964 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
965 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
966 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
967 planned but not yet implemented.)
968 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
969 if the Makefile has such a target.
970 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
971 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
972 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
973 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
974 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
975 but not yet implemented.)
976 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
977 recommended default, especially when using dh.
978 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
979 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
980 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
982 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
984 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
985 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
987 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
988 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
989 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
994 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
997 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
998 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
1002 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1004 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
1005 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1006 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1010 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1016 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1022 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1025 just those installed by the program.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1029 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1032 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1033 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1037 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1040 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1041 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1042 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1043 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1047 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1050 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1051 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1055 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1058 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1059 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1063 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1066 with policy. Closes: #461392
1067 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1068 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1069 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1070 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1071 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1075 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1078 Closes: #460340, #460351
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1082 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1085 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1086 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1087 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1088 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1092 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1095 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1096 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1097 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1098 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1099 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1100 package build directory won't work.
1101 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1102 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1103 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1104 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1105 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1106 mode. Closes: #459426
1107 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1112 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1115 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1119 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1123 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1124 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1125 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1126 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1127 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1128 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1132 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1135 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1136 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1137 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1138 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1142 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1145 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1146 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1147 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1148 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1149 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1153 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1156 debian/package.triggers files.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1160 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1163 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1167 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1170 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1171 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1172 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1173 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1178 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1181 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1185 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1188 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1189 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1191 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1200 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1201 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1202 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1206 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1213 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1220 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1222 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1223 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1225 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1226 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1227 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1229 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1230 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1231 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1235 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1238 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1239 * Update urls to web page.
1240 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1241 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1242 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1243 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1247 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1250 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1251 - typo in alternatives call
1252 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1254 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1255 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1259 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1262 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1267 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1273 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1279 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1282 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1284 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1285 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1286 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1287 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1288 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1289 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1290 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1291 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1292 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1293 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1294 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1298 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1301 package install. Closes: #415717
1302 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1303 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1304 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1305 script and then remove the python files.
1306 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1307 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1308 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1309 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1310 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1311 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1312 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1313 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1314 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1315 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1316 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1317 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1318 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1322 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Correct typo in french translation
1328 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1329 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1331 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1333 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1334 Closes: #406921, #381940
1335 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1337 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1338 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1339 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1340 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1341 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1342 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1343 specified). Closes: #381851
1344 * Misc minor changes.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1348 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1355 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1356 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1360 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1366 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1367 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1370 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1371 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1373 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1374 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1375 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1376 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1380 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1383 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1386 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1390 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1396 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1402 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1403 a difficult situation.
1404 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1405 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1406 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1407 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1408 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1409 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1410 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1411 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1412 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1413 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1417 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Non-maintainer upload.
1420 * Update of dh_python
1421 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1422 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1424 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1425 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1426 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1427 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1428 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1430 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1432 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Non-maintainer upload.
1435 * Update of dh_python
1436 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1437 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1438 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1439 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1440 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1441 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1442 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1443 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1444 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1445 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1447 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1448 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1449 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1450 the not too-distant future).
1451 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1452 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1453 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1454 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1455 thus made the build fail.
1457 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1459 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Non-maintainer upload.
1462 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1464 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1466 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1469 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1470 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1471 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1472 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1473 package. Closes: #301424
1474 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1475 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1476 fonts). Closes: #372686
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1480 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1486 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1487 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1488 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1489 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1490 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1491 above, but already depends on that.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1495 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1498 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1499 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1500 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1501 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1502 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1506 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1512 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1518 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1519 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1523 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1526 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1530 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1534 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1535 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1536 new version (0.24.1).
1537 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1538 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1541 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1542 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1543 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1544 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1545 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1546 new directory on their own.
1547 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1548 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1552 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1555 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1556 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1557 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1558 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1562 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1565 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1566 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1567 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1568 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1569 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1573 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1579 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1583 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1584 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1588 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1589 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1593 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1595 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1596 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1598 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1599 ignored. Closes: #337664
1601 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1606 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1612 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1617 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1618 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1619 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1620 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1621 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1622 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1623 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1627 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1630 version. Closes: #350607
1631 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1632 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1633 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1634 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1638 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1641 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1642 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1643 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1647 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1654 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1660 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1663 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1670 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1671 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1672 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1673 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1674 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1675 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1679 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1682 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1683 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1688 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1691 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1695 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1698 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1702 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1705 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1706 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1707 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1708 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1709 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1710 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1714 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1718 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1719 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1720 link. Closes: #346405
1721 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1723 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1724 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1725 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1726 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1727 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1728 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1729 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1733 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1740 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1746 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1749 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1753 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1756 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1761 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1765 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1766 installed. Closes: #342033
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1770 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1773 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1774 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1775 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1780 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1786 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1792 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1796 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1797 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1798 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1802 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1805 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1810 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1823 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1826 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1827 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1828 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1829 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1830 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1831 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1832 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1834 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1838 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1841 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1842 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1846 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1849 in standard man dirs.
1850 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1860 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1863 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1868 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1875 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1882 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1885 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1886 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1893 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1894 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1895 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1897 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1899 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1911 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1914 mode. Closes: #324161
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1918 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1921 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1922 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1923 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1924 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1929 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1932 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1933 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1934 is necesary for sanity.
1935 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1936 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1941 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1943 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1944 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1948 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1951 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1964 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1965 released, so use at your own risk.
1966 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1967 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1969 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1970 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1971 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1972 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1973 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1974 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1975 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1976 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1977 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1978 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1979 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1980 including twice per config file line now..
1981 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1982 and simplfy the rules file.
1983 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1984 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1985 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1987 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1988 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1992 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1995 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1999 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
2002 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2009 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2013 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2016 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2017 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2018 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2019 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2020 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2021 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2025 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2028 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2029 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2030 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2038 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2039 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2047 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2048 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2049 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2054 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2057 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2058 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2059 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2069 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2076 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2079 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2080 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2081 unknown. Closes: #282924
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2085 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2092 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * Spanish man page updates.
2095 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2106 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2109 * dh_desktop: reindent
2110 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2111 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2123 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2129 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2133 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2136 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2137 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2141 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2163 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2170 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2171 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2172 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2173 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2174 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2175 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2177 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2178 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2179 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2180 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2181 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2182 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2183 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2184 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2185 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2186 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2187 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2188 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2189 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2190 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2191 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2192 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2206 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2210 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2213 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2220 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2227 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2249 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2252 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2253 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2254 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2258 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2261 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2265 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2268 but occasionally right and necessary.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2272 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2275 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2276 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2277 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2278 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2279 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2283 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2286 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2288 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2289 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2290 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2291 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2292 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2293 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2294 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2295 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2296 postinst scripts for udebs.
2297 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2301 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2304 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2306 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2307 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2317 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2324 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2331 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2334 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2338 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2341 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2345 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2348 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2351 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2352 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2356 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2362 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2365 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2369 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2372 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2373 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2374 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2376 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2378 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2379 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2380 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2384 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2387 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2392 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2395 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2396 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2397 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2402 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2417 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2418 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2419 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2420 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2421 associated -dbg packages.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2425 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2428 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2432 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2435 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2439 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2442 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2446 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2449 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2454 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2457 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2461 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2464 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2469 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2472 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2480 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2481 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2482 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2483 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2484 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2485 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2486 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2487 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2488 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2489 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2496 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2504 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2505 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2509 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2512 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2513 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2521 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2525 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2528 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2535 out section number. Closes: #204731
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2539 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2558 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2561 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2562 removal. Closes: #204286
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2569 renaming. Closes: #203548
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2573 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2576 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2577 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2593 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2599 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2602 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2603 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2604 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2611 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2612 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2622 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2632 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2637 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2640 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2647 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2649 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2650 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2657 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2665 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2677 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2684 it break hard links (see #188663).
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2688 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2691 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2695 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2701 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2705 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2706 debconf-mergetemplates
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2710 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2713 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2720 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2724 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2727 * Update debhelper(1).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2731 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2734 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2735 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2736 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2737 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2738 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2742 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2745 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2746 the shell. Closes: #178524
2747 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2754 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2758 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2761 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2765 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2768 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2769 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2770 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2771 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2776 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2779 files from installation.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2783 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2786 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2787 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2791 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2794 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2798 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2801 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2817 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2821 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2822 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2824 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2828 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2831 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2832 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2833 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2834 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2838 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2841 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2845 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2848 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2849 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2853 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2857 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2868 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2872 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2873 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2874 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2879 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2882 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2883 practice. Closes: #163303
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2893 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2900 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2903 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2905 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2906 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2907 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2908 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2909 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2916 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2927 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2934 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2937 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2960 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2967 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2970 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2971 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2972 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2973 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2984 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2991 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2993 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2994 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2995 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
3002 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
3003 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
3004 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
3005 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3006 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3010 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3013 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3015 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3020 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3023 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3027 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3030 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3031 right thing. Closes: #150644
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3035 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Stupid, evil typo.
3038 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3042 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3049 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3052 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3053 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3064 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3067 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3071 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3074 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3075 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3080 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3083 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3093 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3096 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3097 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Removing perl warning message.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3113 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3116 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3117 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3118 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3119 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3120 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3121 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3122 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3123 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3133 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3140 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3143 debconf-mergetemplate.
3144 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3145 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3149 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3152 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3153 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3154 dh_install, which ...
3155 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3156 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3157 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3158 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3159 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3160 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3161 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3162 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3163 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3164 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3165 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3166 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3167 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3168 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3169 other minor changes.
3170 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3171 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3172 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3173 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3174 course there's -X ..)
3175 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3176 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3177 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3179 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3180 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3181 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3182 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3183 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3188 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3194 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3197 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3201 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3207 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3213 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3219 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3225 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3228 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3229 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3230 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3231 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3233 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3234 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3238 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3247 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3251 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3254 upset. Closes: #131322
3256 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3258 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3261 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3262 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3263 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3264 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3265 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3266 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3267 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3268 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3269 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3270 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3271 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3272 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3273 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3274 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3275 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3277 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3281 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3284 - Better indenting of generated code.
3285 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3289 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3293 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3294 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3295 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3296 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3297 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3298 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3299 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3303 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3306 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3310 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3313 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3314 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3315 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3316 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3317 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3318 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3319 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3320 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3321 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3322 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3323 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3324 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3325 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3326 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3327 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3332 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3338 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3341 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3342 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3346 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3349 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3350 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3354 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3360 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3363 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3364 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3365 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3366 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3367 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3372 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3378 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3381 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3385 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3388 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3393 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3399 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3402 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3406 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3412 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3416 Also some indentation fixes.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3420 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3423 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3424 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3425 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3426 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3427 Closes: #106514, #85520
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3437 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3443 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3461 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3464 change it in debhelper v4..
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3468 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3474 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3477 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3481 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3484 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3494 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3497 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3498 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3499 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3500 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3501 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3502 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3503 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3504 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3505 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3506 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3507 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3508 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3512 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3515 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3519 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3526 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3529 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3530 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3531 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3532 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3533 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3534 program those options go to. So, for example,
3535 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3536 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3537 something complex. Closes: #89311
3538 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3542 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3545 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3546 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3547 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3551 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3554 through loop. Closes: #98598
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3558 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Missing semi-colon.
3561 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3562 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3566 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3569 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3570 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3571 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3575 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3578 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3579 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3583 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3586 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3590 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3593 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3594 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3598 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3601 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3602 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3603 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3607 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3610 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3611 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3612 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3616 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3619 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3623 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3629 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3635 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3641 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3647 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3650 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3654 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3657 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3658 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3659 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3660 followed. Closes: #85483
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3664 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3666 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3667 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3668 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3672 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3675 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3676 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3677 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3678 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3679 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3680 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3681 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3682 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3683 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3684 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3685 Closes: #88464, #77743
3686 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3687 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3688 us to deal with that gracefully.
3689 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3691 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3692 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3693 a while, Closes: #51225
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3697 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3703 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3706 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3710 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3714 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3719 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3722 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3723 don't make packlist files.
3724 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3725 debhelper coding standards.
3726 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3727 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3731 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3734 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3738 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3741 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3742 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3743 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3744 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3745 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3746 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3747 but is mildly deprecated.
3748 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3749 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3750 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3751 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3752 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3753 switching to statoverrides..
3754 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3755 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3756 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3757 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3758 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3759 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3761 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3762 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3763 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3764 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3765 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3766 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3767 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3768 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3769 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3771 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3772 variable names, pod man pages).
3773 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3774 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3775 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3776 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3777 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3778 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3779 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3789 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3796 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3799 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3803 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3805 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3806 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3807 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3813 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3814 they were previously ignored.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3818 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3820 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3821 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3825 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3827 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3828 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3829 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3835 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3839 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3841 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3842 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3848 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3849 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3850 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3851 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3852 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3853 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3854 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3855 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3856 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3857 it is an obsolete program.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3863 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3871 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3877 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3881 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3883 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * typo: Closes, #78567
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3911 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3914 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3915 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3916 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3917 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3918 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3925 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3930 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3933 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3934 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3935 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3936 backwards-compatibility.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3943 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3944 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3945 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3946 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3947 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3948 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3950 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3951 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3952 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3954 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3956 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3957 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3958 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3959 should now be raised to severity important..
3960 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3961 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3965 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3968 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3991 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3998 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4000 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
4001 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
4002 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
4003 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
4004 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4014 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4017 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4018 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4019 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4020 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4021 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4022 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4027 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4030 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4040 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4043 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4051 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4052 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4053 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4054 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4062 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4065 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4068 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4069 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4072 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4074 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4075 the TODO entry about it.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4079 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4089 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4090 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4094 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4097 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4098 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4099 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4100 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4117 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4120 (this appears to be logal).
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4124 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4127 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4128 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4129 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4130 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4143 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4144 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4145 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4146 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4156 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4159 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4163 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4173 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4174 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4175 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4180 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4193 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4196 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4197 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4198 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4199 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4200 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4201 notice until v2 is complete.
4202 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4203 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4204 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4205 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4206 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4207 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4209 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4210 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4211 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4212 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4232 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4236 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4246 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4247 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4248 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4249 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4254 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4257 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4258 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4259 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4264 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4267 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4268 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4272 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4274 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4275 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4279 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4281 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4282 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4293 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4296 depend on the build and install targets.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4300 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4303 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4307 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4326 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4328 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4329 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4330 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4331 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4332 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4333 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4334 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4336 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4337 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4338 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4339 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4340 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4341 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4342 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4358 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4361 right place. Closes: #55065
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4372 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4375 * Copyright date updates.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4379 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4382 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4393 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4412 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4418 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4421 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4422 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4423 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4424 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4425 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4426 bits until all files have been registered.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4430 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_installmanpages:
4433 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4434 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4435 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4436 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4437 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4438 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4439 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4440 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4441 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4442 otherwise change the result at all.
4444 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4445 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4446 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4447 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4448 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4459 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4462 act on files that don't exist.
4463 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4464 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4465 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4467 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4468 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4469 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4470 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4486 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4489 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4493 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4496 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4498 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4499 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4500 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4504 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4507 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4508 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4509 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4510 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4511 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4512 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4513 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4515 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4517 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4521 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4528 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4543 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4562 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4563 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4564 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4565 I made some changes, though:
4566 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4567 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4568 that is a clear violation of policy.
4569 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4570 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4571 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4572 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4573 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4574 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4575 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4576 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4577 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4579 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4592 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4599 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4600 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4611 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4618 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4620 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4621 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4622 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4623 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4624 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4625 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4626 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4627 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4637 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4641 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4642 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4655 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4662 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4663 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4667 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4669 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4678 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4685 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4686 for the dependancies to be generated.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4690 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4693 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4700 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4701 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4702 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4707 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4709 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4710 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4711 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4727 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4729 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4730 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4743 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4744 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4745 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4746 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4747 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4748 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4749 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4750 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4751 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4752 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4753 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4754 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4758 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4761 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4762 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4764 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4765 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4766 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4767 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4768 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4769 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4771 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4772 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4779 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4790 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4792 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4793 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4798 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4800 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4801 for building debhelper.
4802 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4806 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4808 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4813 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4816 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4820 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4822 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4823 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4824 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4825 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4826 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4827 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4828 it's always available.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4832 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4835 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4836 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4837 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4841 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4843 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4844 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4845 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4855 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4858 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4871 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4872 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4873 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4877 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4879 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4880 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4885 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4888 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4889 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4891 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4892 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4902 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4908 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4911 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4915 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4918 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4919 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4921 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4925 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4927 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4928 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4929 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4930 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4934 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4937 things if CDPATH is set.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4947 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4950 seems to make sense for the transition.
4952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4954 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4956 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4957 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4962 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4964 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4965 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4966 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4970 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4973 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4977 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4980 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4981 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4982 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4983 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4993 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4996 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4997 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4998 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4999 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
5000 * debhelper.1: documented this.
5001 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
5002 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
5003 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
5004 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
5005 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5010 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5013 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5014 * README: mention doc/v2
5015 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5016 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5022 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5023 be using this script RSN.
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5030 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5031 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5032 more than 1 init script.
5034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5036 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5038 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5039 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5043 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5045 * Changed perl version detection.
5046 * Changed call to find.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5053 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5055 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Really include dh_installpam.
5064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5066 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5068 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5069 * Wrote man page for same.
5071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5073 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5075 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5076 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5077 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5089 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5092 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5093 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5094 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5095 x bit was being set!
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5102 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5103 well. (Closes: 38900)
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5110 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5111 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5121 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5123 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5137 help from Julian Gilbey.
5138 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5139 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5140 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5141 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5142 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5143 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5144 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5155 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5157 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5174 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5177 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5181 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5184 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5188 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5191 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5201 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5203 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5204 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5223 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5224 may be deleted. (#35845)
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5228 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5230 * Various man page enhancements.
5231 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5239 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5240 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5244 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5246 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5247 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5248 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5249 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5251 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5252 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Another very minor typo fix.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5269 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * Very minor typo fix.
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5275 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5278 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5279 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5289 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5292 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5293 variables properly (#34850).
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5303 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5305 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5306 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5307 (automatically generated by build process).
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5313 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5317 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5319 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5320 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5321 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5323 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5327 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5329 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5330 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * README: minor typo fix.
5338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5340 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5342 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5343 leave it at that. :-)
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5362 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5363 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5364 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5368 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5370 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5371 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5375 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5377 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5378 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5385 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5386 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5387 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5388 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5392 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5394 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5395 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5396 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5397 Craig Small for spotting this.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5401 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5404 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5405 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5415 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5418 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5424 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5425 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5426 working on the last version of debhelper.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5430 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5432 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5433 being made. (#23255)
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5443 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5446 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5453 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5454 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5455 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5456 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5460 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5463 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5464 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5465 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5466 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5468 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5469 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5471 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5482 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5488 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5490 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5491 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5492 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5493 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5494 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5495 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5496 suidregister actually supports it.
5497 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5498 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5502 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5509 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5512 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5513 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5514 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5515 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5516 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5517 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5518 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5522 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5524 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5525 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5529 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5531 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5532 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5533 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5534 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5535 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5539 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5541 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5542 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5544 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5545 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5546 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5547 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5548 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5549 effect, either. (#30118)
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5559 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5562 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5563 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5573 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5576 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5577 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5578 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5579 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5583 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5586 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5587 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5600 packages, painlessly.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5610 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5622 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5624 * The perl conversion is complete.
5626 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5628 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5629 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5630 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5635 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5637 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5638 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5639 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5640 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5644 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5646 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5647 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5649 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5651 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5652 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5656 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5658 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5659 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5660 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5670 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5673 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5674 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5675 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5676 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5677 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5681 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5684 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5685 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5686 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5687 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5691 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5693 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5694 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5698 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5700 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5701 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5702 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5703 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5704 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5705 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5706 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5707 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5708 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5712 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5718 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5721 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5722 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5723 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5728 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5730 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5731 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5735 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5738 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5742 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5744 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5745 sections of shared libraries.
5746 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5747 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5748 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5749 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5750 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5751 things you don't want them to.
5752 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5753 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5757 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5759 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5760 shared libraries. (#26414)
5762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5764 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5766 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5767 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5768 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5769 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5773 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5775 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5777 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5779 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5780 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5781 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5782 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5783 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5787 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5789 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5790 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5794 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5796 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5797 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5798 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5803 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5805 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5806 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5810 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5813 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5814 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5815 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5816 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5817 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5819 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5820 remove debian/files properly.
5821 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5822 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5823 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5824 * Removed bogus menu file.
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5828 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5831 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5835 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5837 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5838 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5839 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5840 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5841 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5842 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5843 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5847 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5850 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5851 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5852 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5853 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5857 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5859 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5864 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5867 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5868 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5870 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5871 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5872 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5873 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5874 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5875 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5879 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5881 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5882 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5883 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5884 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5885 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5886 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5887 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5888 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5889 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5890 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5891 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5892 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5893 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5894 passed any switches.
5895 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5899 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5902 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5903 at all for a long while.
5904 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5905 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5906 large chunks in the process.
5907 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5908 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5909 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5914 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5916 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5917 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5919 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5924 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5926 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5927 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5928 that don't always have the same files in them.
5929 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5930 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5931 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5935 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5937 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5939 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5940 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5941 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5942 updating 27 man pages.
5943 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5944 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5945 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5946 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5947 programs act on. (#25247)
5949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5951 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5955 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5956 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5957 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5958 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5959 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5960 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5965 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5972 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5979 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5982 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5986 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5992 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5995 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5996 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5997 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5998 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5999 package by accident.
6000 * Is version 1.0 next?
6002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
6004 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6006 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6007 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6008 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6012 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6014 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6015 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6016 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6017 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6018 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6019 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6021 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6026 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6029 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6030 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6034 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6037 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6041 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6043 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6044 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6045 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6050 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6056 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6058 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6059 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6060 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6065 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6071 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6074 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6075 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6076 past week. Thanks, guys!
6078 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6079 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6080 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6081 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6082 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6083 would do in the same situation.
6084 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6085 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6087 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6089 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6090 permissions changed.
6091 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6092 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6093 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6094 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6095 files are treated identically.
6096 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6097 * Minor man page fixes.
6098 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6099 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6100 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6104 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6106 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6107 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6108 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6109 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6110 use -X multiple times, too.
6111 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6112 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6116 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6119 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6120 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6124 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6126 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6127 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6131 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6133 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6134 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6135 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6136 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6137 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6138 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6139 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6140 shape if you're starting a new package.
6142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6144 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6146 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6147 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6151 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6154 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6155 because of missing symlinks.
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6165 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6167 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6168 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6169 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6170 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6171 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6172 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6174 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6175 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6179 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6181 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6182 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6183 to be changed after the fact :-)
6184 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6188 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6190 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6191 no version string after the -V.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6195 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6197 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6198 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6203 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6206 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6210 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6212 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6213 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6214 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6215 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6216 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6217 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6218 I always welcome corrections!
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6222 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6228 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6230 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6231 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6232 * Documented this new switch.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6236 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6239 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6240 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6241 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6242 no packages use the old behavior.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6246 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6249 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6250 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6254 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6257 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6261 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6267 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6270 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6274 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6277 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6278 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6279 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6283 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6289 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6291 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6292 into the source package by accident.
6294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6296 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6298 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6299 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6300 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6301 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6302 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6303 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6304 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6309 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6311 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6313 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6314 inspired to implement some of it.
6315 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6319 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6321 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6322 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6326 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6328 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6329 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6330 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6334 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6336 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6337 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6338 have done.) (#17598)
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6342 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6354 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6356 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6357 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6361 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6364 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6365 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6369 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6372 argument processor in perl.
6373 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6374 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6375 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6376 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6380 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6383 type directories. (#16933)
6384 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6385 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6386 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6387 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6388 are supported. (#16935)
6389 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6394 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6396 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6397 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6401 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6403 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6405 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6406 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6407 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6408 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6409 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6410 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6414 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6416 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6417 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6418 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6420 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6421 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6422 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6423 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6424 a given package, or -i or -a.
6425 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6426 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6427 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6428 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6429 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6430 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6431 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6432 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6433 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6435 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6436 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6437 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6441 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6444 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6445 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6450 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6452 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6453 does not have a section.
6455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6457 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6459 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6460 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6461 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6462 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * Fixed typo #16215.
6470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6472 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6474 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6475 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6476 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6477 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6478 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6479 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6484 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6487 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6488 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6489 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6500 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6506 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6508 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6509 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6510 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6511 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6512 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6513 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6514 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6524 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6526 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6527 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6531 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6533 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6534 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6535 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6536 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6540 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6542 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6543 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6553 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6555 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6556 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6560 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6562 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6563 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6573 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6575 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6576 postinst, postrm, etc.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6586 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6588 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6589 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6590 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6591 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6592 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6593 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6597 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6599 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6600 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6601 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6605 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6607 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6608 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6612 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6614 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6615 installing package files into.
6616 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6621 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6623 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6625 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6629 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6635 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6637 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6638 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6642 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6644 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6645 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6646 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6647 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6648 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6652 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6654 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6655 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6656 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6657 multiple binary packages.
6658 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6659 should rebuild them with this version.
6660 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6664 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6666 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6667 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6671 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6673 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6674 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6678 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6680 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6681 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6682 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6683 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6684 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6685 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6686 debian/README.debian.
6687 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6688 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6689 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6690 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6691 in a few situations.)
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6695 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6701 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6707 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6709 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6710 * Fixed several man pages.
6712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6714 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6716 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6717 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6718 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6722 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6724 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6725 is ready for general use.
6726 * Added man pages for all commands.
6727 * Multiple binary package support.
6728 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6729 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6730 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6732 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6733 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6734 auto-installed as parameters.
6735 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6737 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6740 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6741 the package build directory it is to act on.
6742 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6743 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6744 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6748 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6750 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6751 ready to replace debstd.
6753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400