1 debhelper (7.0.9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
4 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
5 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
6 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
7 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
8 in a future (v8) compatability level. Closes: #471060
9 * dh: fix POS error. Closes: #480191
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 05 May 2008 18:53:10 -0400
13 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
16 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
17 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
18 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
19 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
21 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
22 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
23 breaking backwards compatability.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
27 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
34 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
40 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Convert copyright file to new format.
43 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
47 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
50 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
54 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
57 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
58 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
59 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
60 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
61 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
62 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
63 logging by dh_listpackages.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
67 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
70 run and there are no packages of that type.
71 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
72 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
73 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
74 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
76 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
77 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
81 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
83 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
84 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
85 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
89 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
92 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
93 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
95 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
96 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
97 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
98 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
99 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
100 planned but not yet implemented.)
101 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
102 if the Makefile has such a target.
103 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
104 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
105 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
106 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
107 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
108 but not yet implemented.)
109 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
110 recommended default, especially when using dh.
111 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
112 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
113 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
115 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
117 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
118 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
120 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
121 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
122 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
127 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
130 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
131 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
135 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
137 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
138 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
139 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
143 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
149 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
155 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
158 just those installed by the program.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
162 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
165 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
166 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
170 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
173 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
174 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
175 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
176 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
180 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
183 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
184 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
188 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
191 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
192 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
196 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
199 with policy. Closes: #461392
200 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
201 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
202 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
203 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
204 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
208 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
210 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
211 Closes: #460340, #460351
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
215 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
218 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
219 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
220 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
221 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
225 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
228 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
229 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
230 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
231 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
232 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
233 package build directory won't work.
234 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
235 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
236 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
237 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
238 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
239 mode. Closes: #459426
240 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
245 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
248 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
252 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
256 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
257 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
258 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
259 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
260 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
261 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
265 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
268 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
269 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
270 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
271 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
275 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
278 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
279 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
280 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
281 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
282 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
286 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
289 debian/package.triggers files.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
293 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
296 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
300 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
303 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
304 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
305 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
306 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
311 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
314 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
318 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
320 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
321 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
322 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
324 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
329 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
333 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
334 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
335 * Typo. Closes: #441272
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
339 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
346 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
353 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
355 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
356 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
358 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
359 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
360 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
362 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
363 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
364 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
368 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
370 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
371 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
372 * Update urls to web page.
373 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
375 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
376 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
380 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
383 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
384 - typo in alternatives call
385 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
387 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
388 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
392 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
395 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
400 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
406 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
412 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
415 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
417 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
418 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
419 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
420 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
421 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
422 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
423 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
424 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
425 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
426 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
427 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
431 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
434 package install. Closes: #415717
435 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
436 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
437 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
438 script and then remove the python files.
439 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
440 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
441 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
442 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
443 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
444 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
445 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
446 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
447 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
448 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
449 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
450 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
451 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
455 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Correct typo in french translation
461 * Typo. Closes: #400571
462 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
464 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
466 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
467 Closes: #406921, #381940
468 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
470 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
471 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
472 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
473 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
474 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
475 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
476 specified). Closes: #381851
477 * Misc minor changes.
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
481 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
484 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
488 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
489 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
493 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
499 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
500 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
503 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
504 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
506 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
507 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
508 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
509 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
513 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
516 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
519 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
523 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
529 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
535 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
536 a difficult situation.
537 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
538 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
539 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
540 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
541 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
542 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
543 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
544 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
545 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
546 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
550 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Non-maintainer upload.
553 * Update of dh_python
554 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
555 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
557 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
558 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
559 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
560 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
561 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
563 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
565 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Non-maintainer upload.
568 * Update of dh_python
569 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
570 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
571 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
572 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
573 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
574 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
575 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
576 specific python version. Closes: #373853
577 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
578 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
580 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
581 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
582 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
583 the not too-distant future).
584 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
585 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
586 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
587 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
588 thus made the build fail.
590 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
592 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Non-maintainer upload.
595 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
597 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
599 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
602 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
603 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
604 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
605 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
606 package. Closes: #301424
607 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
608 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
609 fonts). Closes: #372686
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
613 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
619 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
620 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
621 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
622 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
623 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
624 above, but already depends on that.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
628 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
631 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
632 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
633 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
634 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
635 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
639 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
645 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
651 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
652 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
656 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
659 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
663 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
667 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
668 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
669 new version (0.24.1).
670 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
671 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
674 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
675 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
676 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
677 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
678 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
679 new directory on their own.
680 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
681 * Fix broken directory removal code.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
685 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
688 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
689 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
690 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
691 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
695 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
698 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
699 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
700 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
701 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
702 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
706 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
708 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
712 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Typo. Closes: #358904
716 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
717 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
721 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
722 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
726 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
728 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
729 || exit 0 instead of the intended
731 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
732 ignored. Closes: #337664
734 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
739 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
745 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
750 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
751 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
752 the dh_installdebconf manpage
753 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
754 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
755 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
756 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
760 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
762 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
763 version. Closes: #350607
764 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
765 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
766 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
767 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
771 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
774 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
775 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
776 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
780 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
787 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Minor bug fix from last release.
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
793 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
795 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
796 language guessing. Closes: #193221
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
800 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
803 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
804 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
805 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
806 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
807 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
808 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
812 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
815 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
816 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
821 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
824 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
828 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
831 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
835 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
838 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
839 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
840 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
841 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
842 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
843 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
847 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
850 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
851 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
852 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
853 link. Closes: #346405
854 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
857 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
858 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
859 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
860 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
861 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
862 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
866 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
873 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
875 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
879 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
882 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
886 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
889 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
894 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
898 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
899 installed. Closes: #342033
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
903 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
906 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
907 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
908 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
913 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
915 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
919 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
925 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
929 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
930 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
931 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
935 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
938 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
943 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
950 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
956 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
958 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
959 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
960 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
961 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
962 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
963 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
964 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
965 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
967 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
971 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
974 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
975 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
979 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
982 in standard man dirs.
983 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
987 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
993 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
996 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1008 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1015 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1018 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1019 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1023 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1026 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1027 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1028 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1030 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1032 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1038 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1044 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1047 mode. Closes: #324161
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1051 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1054 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1055 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1056 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1057 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1062 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1065 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1066 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1067 is necesary for sanity.
1068 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1069 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1074 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1076 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1077 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1084 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1088 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1094 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1097 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1098 released, so use at your own risk.
1099 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1100 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1102 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1103 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1104 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1105 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1106 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1107 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1108 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1109 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1110 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1111 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1112 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1113 including twice per config file line now..
1114 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1115 and simplfy the rules file.
1116 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1117 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1118 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1120 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1121 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1125 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1128 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1135 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1139 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1142 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1146 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1149 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1150 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1151 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1152 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1153 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1154 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1158 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1161 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1162 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1163 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1168 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1171 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1172 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1177 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1180 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1181 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1182 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1187 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1190 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1191 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1192 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1202 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1209 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1212 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1213 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1214 unknown. Closes: #282924
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1218 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1225 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Spanish man page updates.
1228 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1239 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1242 * dh_desktop: reindent
1243 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1244 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1254 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1256 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1262 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1266 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1269 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1270 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1274 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1280 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1286 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1293 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1296 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1300 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1303 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1304 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1305 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1306 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1307 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1308 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1310 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1311 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1312 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1313 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1314 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1315 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1316 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1317 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1318 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1319 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1320 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1321 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1322 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1323 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1324 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1325 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1329 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1336 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1339 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1343 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1346 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1353 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1357 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1360 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1370 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1376 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1382 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1385 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1386 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1387 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1391 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1394 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1398 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1401 but occasionally right and necessary.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1405 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1408 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1409 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1410 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1411 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1412 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1416 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1419 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1421 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1422 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1423 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1424 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1425 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1426 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1427 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1428 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1429 postinst scripts for udebs.
1430 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1434 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1437 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1439 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1440 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1444 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1450 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1457 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1464 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1467 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1471 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1474 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1478 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1481 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1484 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1485 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1489 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1495 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1498 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1502 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1505 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1506 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1507 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1509 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1511 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1512 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1513 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1517 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1520 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1525 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1528 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1529 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1530 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1535 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1541 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1550 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1551 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1552 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1553 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1554 associated -dbg packages.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1558 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1561 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1565 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1568 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1572 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1575 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1579 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1582 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1590 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1594 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1597 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1605 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1609 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1613 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1614 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1615 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1616 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1617 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1618 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1619 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1620 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1621 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1622 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1626 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1629 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1634 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1637 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1638 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1642 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1645 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1646 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1651 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1654 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1661 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1668 out section number. Closes: #204731
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1685 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1694 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1695 removal. Closes: #204286
1697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1699 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1701 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1702 renaming. Closes: #203548
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1706 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1709 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1710 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1714 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1720 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1726 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1732 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1735 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1736 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1737 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1741 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1744 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1745 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1749 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1755 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1762 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1765 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1770 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1773 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1777 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1780 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1782 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1783 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1790 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1798 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1802 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1810 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1814 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1817 it break hard links (see #188663).
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1821 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1824 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1828 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1834 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1838 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1839 debconf-mergetemplates
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1843 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1846 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1853 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1857 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1860 * Update debhelper(1).
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1867 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1868 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1869 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1870 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1871 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1878 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1879 the shell. Closes: #178524
1880 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1887 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1894 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1901 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1902 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1903 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1904 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1912 files from installation.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1919 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1920 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1927 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1931 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1934 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1944 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1954 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1955 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1957 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1961 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1964 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1965 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1966 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1967 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1971 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1974 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1978 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1981 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1982 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1986 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1990 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1995 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2005 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2006 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2007 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2015 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2016 practice. Closes: #163303
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2020 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2036 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2038 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2039 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2040 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2041 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2042 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2046 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2049 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2067 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2070 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2075 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2087 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2093 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2103 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2104 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2105 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2106 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2111 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2117 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2127 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2128 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2132 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2135 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2136 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2137 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2138 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2139 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2143 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2146 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2148 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2153 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2156 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2160 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2163 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2164 right thing. Closes: #150644
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2168 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Stupid, evil typo.
2171 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2182 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2185 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2186 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2200 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2204 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2207 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2208 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2216 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2229 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2230 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2240 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Removing perl warning message.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2246 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2249 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2250 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2251 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2252 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2253 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2254 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2255 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2256 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2276 debconf-mergetemplate.
2277 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2278 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2285 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2286 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2287 dh_install, which ...
2288 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2289 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2290 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2291 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2292 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2293 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2294 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2295 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2296 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2297 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2298 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2299 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2300 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2301 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2302 other minor changes.
2303 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2304 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2305 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2306 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2307 course there's -X ..)
2308 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2309 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2310 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2312 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2313 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2314 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2315 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2316 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2321 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2327 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2330 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2334 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2340 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2346 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2352 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2358 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2361 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2362 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2363 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2364 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2366 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2367 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2371 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2377 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2380 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2384 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2387 upset. Closes: #131322
2389 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2391 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2394 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2395 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2396 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2397 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2398 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2399 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2400 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2401 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2402 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2403 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2404 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2405 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2406 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2407 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2408 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2410 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2414 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2417 - Better indenting of generated code.
2418 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2422 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2426 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2427 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2428 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2429 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2430 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2431 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2432 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2436 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2439 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2443 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2446 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2447 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2448 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2449 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2450 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2451 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2452 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2453 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2454 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2455 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2456 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2457 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2458 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2459 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2460 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2465 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2471 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2474 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2475 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2479 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2482 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2483 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2487 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2493 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2496 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2497 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2498 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2499 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2500 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2505 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2511 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2514 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2518 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2521 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2526 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2532 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2535 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2539 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2545 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2549 Also some indentation fixes.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2553 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2556 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2557 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2558 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2559 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2560 Closes: #106514, #85520
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2564 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2570 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2576 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2582 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2588 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2594 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2597 change it in debhelper v4..
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2601 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2607 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2610 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2614 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2617 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2621 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2627 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2630 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2631 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2632 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2633 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2634 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2635 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2636 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2637 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2638 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2639 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2640 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2641 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2645 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2648 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2652 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2659 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2662 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2663 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2664 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2665 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2666 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2667 program those options go to. So, for example,
2668 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2669 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2670 something complex. Closes: #89311
2671 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2675 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2678 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2679 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2680 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2684 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2687 through loop. Closes: #98598
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2691 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * Missing semi-colon.
2694 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2695 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2699 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2702 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2703 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2704 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2708 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2711 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2712 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2719 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2723 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2726 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2727 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2731 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2734 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2735 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2736 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2740 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2743 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2744 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2745 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2749 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2752 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2756 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2762 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2768 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2774 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2780 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2783 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2787 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2790 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2791 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2792 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2793 followed. Closes: #85483
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2797 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2799 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2800 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2801 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2805 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2808 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2809 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2810 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2811 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2812 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2813 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2814 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2815 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2816 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2817 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2818 Closes: #88464, #77743
2819 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2820 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2821 us to deal with that gracefully.
2822 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2824 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2825 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2826 a while, Closes: #51225
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2830 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2836 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2839 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2843 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2847 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2852 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2855 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2856 don't make packlist files.
2857 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2858 debhelper coding standards.
2859 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2860 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2864 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2867 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2871 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2874 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2875 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2876 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2877 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2878 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2879 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2880 but is mildly deprecated.
2881 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2882 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2883 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2884 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2885 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2886 switching to statoverrides..
2887 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2888 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2889 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2890 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2891 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2892 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2894 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2895 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2896 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2897 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2898 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2899 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2900 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2901 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2902 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2904 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2905 variable names, pod man pages).
2906 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2907 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2908 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2909 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2910 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2911 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2912 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2916 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2922 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2932 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2936 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2938 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2939 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2940 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2944 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2946 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2947 they were previously ignored.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2951 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2953 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2954 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2958 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2960 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2961 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2962 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2966 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2968 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2972 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2974 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2975 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2979 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2981 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2982 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2983 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2984 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2985 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2986 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2987 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2988 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2989 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2990 it is an obsolete program.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2994 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2996 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3000 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3004 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3006 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3010 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3012 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3014 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3016 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3020 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3026 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * typo: Closes, #78567
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3032 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3044 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3047 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3048 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3049 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3050 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3051 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3055 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3058 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3063 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3066 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3067 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3068 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3069 backwards-compatability.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3073 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3076 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3077 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3078 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3079 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3080 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3081 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3083 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3084 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3085 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3087 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3089 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3090 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3091 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3092 should now be raised to severity important..
3093 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3094 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3098 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3101 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3106 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3112 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3118 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3124 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3131 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3134 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3135 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3136 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3137 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3141 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3147 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3150 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3151 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3152 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3153 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3154 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3155 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3160 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3163 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3167 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3173 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3176 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3181 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3184 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3185 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3186 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3187 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3191 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3195 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3198 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3201 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3202 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3205 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3207 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3208 the TODO entry about it.
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3212 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3219 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3222 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3223 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3227 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3230 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3231 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3232 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3233 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3237 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3243 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3250 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3253 (this appears to be logal).
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3257 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3260 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3261 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3262 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3263 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3267 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3273 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3276 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3277 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3278 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3279 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3283 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3289 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3292 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3296 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3303 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3306 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3307 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3308 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3313 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3320 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3326 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3329 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3330 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3331 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3332 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3333 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3334 notice until v2 is complete.
3335 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3336 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3337 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3338 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3339 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3340 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3342 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3343 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3344 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3345 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3349 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3355 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3362 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3365 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3369 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3376 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3379 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3380 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3381 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3382 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3387 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3390 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3391 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3392 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3397 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3400 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3401 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3405 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3408 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3412 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3415 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3419 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3426 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3428 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3429 depend on the build and install targets.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3433 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3436 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3440 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3447 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3453 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3459 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3462 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3463 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3464 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3465 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3466 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3467 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3469 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3470 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3471 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3472 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3473 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3474 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3475 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3479 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3485 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3491 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3494 right place. Closes: #55065
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3498 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3505 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3508 * Copyright date updates.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3515 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3520 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3526 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3551 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3553 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3554 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3555 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3556 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3557 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3558 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3559 bits until all files have been registered.
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3563 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_installmanpages:
3566 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3567 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3568 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3569 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3570 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3571 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3572 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3573 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3574 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3575 otherwise change the result at all.
3577 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3578 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3579 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3580 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3581 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3586 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3592 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3595 act on files that don't exist.
3596 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3597 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3598 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3600 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3601 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3602 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3603 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3613 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3619 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3622 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3629 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3631 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3632 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3633 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3637 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3640 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3641 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3642 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3643 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3644 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3645 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3646 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3648 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3650 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3654 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3661 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3667 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3673 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3676 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3680 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3686 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3692 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3695 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3696 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3697 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3698 I made some changes, though:
3699 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3700 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3701 that is a clear violation of policy.
3702 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3703 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3704 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3705 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3706 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3707 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3708 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3709 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3710 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3712 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3716 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3722 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3725 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3729 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3732 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3733 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3738 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3754 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3755 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3756 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3757 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3758 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3759 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3760 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3764 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3766 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3774 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3775 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3779 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3788 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3792 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3795 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3796 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3802 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3807 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3811 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3818 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3819 for the dependancies to be generated.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3823 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3826 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3830 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3833 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3834 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3835 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3843 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3844 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3848 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3860 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3863 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3873 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3876 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3877 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3878 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3879 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3880 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3881 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3882 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3883 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3884 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3885 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3886 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3887 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3891 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3894 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3895 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3897 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3898 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3899 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3900 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3901 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3902 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3904 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3905 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3912 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3926 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3931 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3934 for building debhelper.
3935 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3939 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3949 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3953 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3956 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3957 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3958 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3959 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3960 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3961 it's always available.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3965 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3968 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3969 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3970 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3974 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3977 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3978 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3982 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3988 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3991 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3995 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3997 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4001 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4004 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4005 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4006 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4010 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4013 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4021 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4022 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4024 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4025 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4029 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4044 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4051 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4052 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4054 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4058 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4061 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4062 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4063 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4070 things if CDPATH is set.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4074 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4083 seems to make sense for the transition.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4087 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4090 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4095 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4097 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4098 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4099 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4103 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4106 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4110 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4113 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4114 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4115 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4116 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4129 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4130 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4131 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4132 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4133 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4134 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4135 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4136 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4137 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4138 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4143 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4146 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4147 * README: mention doc/v2
4148 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4149 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4153 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4155 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4156 be using this script RSN.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4160 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4163 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4164 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4165 more than 1 init script.
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4169 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4172 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4176 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Changed perl version detection.
4179 * Changed call to find.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4183 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4186 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4188 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4193 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Really include dh_installpam.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4199 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4202 * Wrote man page for same.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4206 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4209 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4210 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4215 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4222 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4225 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4226 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4227 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4228 x bit was being set!
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4232 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4235 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4236 well. (Closes: 38900)
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4240 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4243 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4244 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4248 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4254 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4261 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4267 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4270 help from Julian Gilbey.
4271 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4272 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4273 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4274 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4275 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4276 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4277 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4282 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4284 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4288 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4307 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4310 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4314 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4317 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4321 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4324 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4328 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4334 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4337 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4341 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4347 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4349 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4353 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4356 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4357 may be deleted. (#35845)
4359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4361 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4363 * Various man page enhancements.
4364 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4369 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4372 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4373 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4377 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4380 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4381 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4382 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4384 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4385 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4396 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * Another very minor typo fix.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4402 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Very minor typo fix.
4406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4408 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4410 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4411 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4412 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4416 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4422 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4424 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4425 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4426 variables properly (#34850).
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4430 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4436 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4439 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4440 (automatically generated by build process).
4442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4444 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4446 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4450 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4453 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4454 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4456 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4460 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4462 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4463 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4467 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * README: minor typo fix.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4473 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4476 leave it at that. :-)
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4480 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4486 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4495 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4496 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4497 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4501 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4504 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4508 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4510 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4511 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4515 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4518 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4519 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4520 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4521 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4525 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4528 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4529 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4530 Craig Small for spotting this.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4534 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4537 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4538 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4542 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4544 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4548 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4550 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4551 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4555 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4557 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4558 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4559 working on the last version of debhelper.
4561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4563 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4565 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4566 being made. (#23255)
4568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4570 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4572 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4579 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4583 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4586 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4587 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4588 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4589 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4593 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4596 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4597 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4598 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4599 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4601 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4602 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4604 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4609 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4611 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4615 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4621 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4624 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4625 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4626 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4627 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4628 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4629 suidregister actually supports it.
4630 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4631 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4635 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4642 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4645 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4646 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4647 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4648 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4649 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4650 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4651 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4655 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4657 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4658 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4662 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4664 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4665 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4666 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4667 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4668 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4675 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4677 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4678 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4679 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4680 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4681 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4682 effect, either. (#30118)
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4686 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4688 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4692 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4694 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4695 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4696 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4700 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4702 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4706 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4708 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4709 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4710 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4711 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4712 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4716 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4719 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4720 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4724 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4730 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4733 packages, painlessly.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4737 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4743 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4745 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4749 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4751 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4755 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * The perl conversion is complete.
4759 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4761 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4762 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4763 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4768 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4771 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4772 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4773 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4777 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4780 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4782 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4784 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4785 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4789 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4792 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4793 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4803 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4805 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4806 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4807 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4808 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4809 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4810 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4814 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4817 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4818 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4819 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4820 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4824 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4826 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4827 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4831 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4834 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4835 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4836 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4837 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4838 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4839 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4840 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4841 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4845 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4851 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4854 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4855 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4856 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4864 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4868 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4871 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4875 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4878 sections of shared libraries.
4879 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4880 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4881 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4882 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4883 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4884 things you don't want them to.
4885 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4886 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4890 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4893 shared libraries. (#26414)
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4897 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4899 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4900 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4901 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4902 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4906 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4910 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4912 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4913 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4914 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4915 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4916 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4920 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4922 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4923 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4930 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4931 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4936 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4939 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4943 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4945 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4946 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4947 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4948 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4949 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4950 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4952 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4953 remove debian/files properly.
4954 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4955 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4956 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4957 * Removed bogus menu file.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4964 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4971 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4972 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4973 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4974 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4975 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4976 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4983 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4984 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4985 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4986 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4990 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4997 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4999 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5000 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5001 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5003 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5004 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5005 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5006 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5007 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5008 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5012 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5014 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5015 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5016 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5017 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5018 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5019 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5020 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5021 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5022 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5023 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5024 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5025 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5026 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5027 passed any switches.
5028 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5032 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5034 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5035 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5036 at all for a long while.
5037 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5038 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5039 large chunks in the process.
5040 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5041 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5042 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5047 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5050 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5052 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5057 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5059 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5060 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5061 that don't always have the same files in them.
5062 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5063 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5064 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5070 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5072 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5073 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5074 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5075 updating 27 man pages.
5076 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5077 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5078 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5079 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5080 programs act on. (#25247)
5082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5084 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5088 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5089 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5090 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5091 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5092 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5093 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5098 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5105 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5112 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5115 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5119 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5125 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5127 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5128 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5129 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5130 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5131 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5132 package by accident.
5133 * Is version 1.0 next?
5135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5137 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5139 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5140 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5141 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5145 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5147 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5148 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5149 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5150 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5151 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5152 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5154 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5159 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5162 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5163 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5167 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5169 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5170 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5174 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5177 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5178 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5183 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5185 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5189 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5192 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5193 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5198 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5204 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5207 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5208 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5209 past week. Thanks, guys!
5211 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5212 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5213 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5214 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5215 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5216 would do in the same situation.
5217 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5218 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5220 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5222 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5223 permissions changed.
5224 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5225 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5226 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5227 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5228 files are treated identically.
5229 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5230 * Minor man page fixes.
5231 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5232 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5233 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5237 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5240 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5241 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5242 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5243 use -X multiple times, too.
5244 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5245 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5249 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5252 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5253 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5257 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5260 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5264 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5267 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5268 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5269 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5270 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5271 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5272 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5273 shape if you're starting a new package.
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5277 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5280 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5284 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5286 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5287 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5288 because of missing symlinks.
5290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5292 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5294 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5298 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5301 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5302 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5303 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5304 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5305 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5307 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5308 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5312 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5314 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5315 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5316 to be changed after the fact :-)
5317 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5321 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5323 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5324 no version string after the -V.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5328 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5330 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5331 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5336 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5339 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5343 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5346 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5347 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5348 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5349 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5350 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5351 I always welcome corrections!
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5355 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5361 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5364 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5365 * Documented this new switch.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5369 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5372 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5373 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5374 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5375 no packages use the old behavior.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5379 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5382 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5383 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5387 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5390 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5394 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5400 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5403 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5407 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5410 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5411 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5412 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5416 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5422 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5425 into the source package by accident.
5427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5429 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5431 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5432 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5433 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5434 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5435 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5436 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5437 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5442 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5446 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5447 inspired to implement some of it.
5448 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5452 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5454 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5455 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5459 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5462 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5463 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5467 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5469 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5470 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5471 have done.) (#17598)
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5475 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5481 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5487 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5490 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5494 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5497 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5498 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5502 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5505 argument processor in perl.
5506 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5507 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5508 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5509 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5513 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5516 type directories. (#16933)
5517 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5518 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5519 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5520 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5521 are supported. (#16935)
5522 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5527 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5529 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5530 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5534 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5538 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5539 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5540 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5541 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5542 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5543 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5547 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5550 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5551 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5553 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5554 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5555 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5556 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5557 a given package, or -i or -a.
5558 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5559 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5560 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5561 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5562 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5563 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5564 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5565 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5566 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5568 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5569 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5570 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5574 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5577 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5578 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5583 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5586 does not have a section.
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5590 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5593 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5594 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5595 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5599 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5601 * Fixed typo #16215.
5603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5605 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5607 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5608 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5609 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5610 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5611 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5612 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5617 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5620 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5621 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5622 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5627 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5629 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5633 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5635 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5639 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5642 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5643 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5644 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5645 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5646 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5647 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5651 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5657 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5659 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5660 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5664 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5667 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5668 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5669 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5673 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5676 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5680 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5682 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5686 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5688 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5689 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5693 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5696 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5700 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5706 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5709 postinst, postrm, etc.
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5713 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5719 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5722 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5723 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5724 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5725 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5726 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5730 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5733 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5734 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5738 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5740 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5741 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5745 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5747 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5748 installing package files into.
5749 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5754 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5758 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5762 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5768 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5771 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5775 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5778 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5779 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5780 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5781 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5785 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5787 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5788 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5789 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5790 multiple binary packages.
5791 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5792 should rebuild them with this version.
5793 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5797 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5800 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5804 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5807 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5811 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5814 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5815 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5816 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5817 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5818 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5819 debian/README.debian.
5820 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5821 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5822 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5823 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5824 in a few situations.)
5826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5828 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5830 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5834 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5840 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5843 * Fixed several man pages.
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5847 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5850 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5851 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5855 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5857 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5858 is ready for general use.
5859 * Added man pages for all commands.
5860 * Multiple binary package support.
5861 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5862 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5863 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5865 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5866 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5867 auto-installed as parameters.
5868 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5870 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5873 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5874 the package build directory it is to act on.
5875 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5876 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5877 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5881 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5883 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5884 ready to replace debstd.
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400