1 debhelper (7.4.21) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installman: Support .so links relative to the current section.
4 * dh_installman: Avoid converting .so links to symlinks if the link
5 target is not present in the same binary package, on advice of
6 Colin Watson. (To support eventual so search paths.)
7 * Add deprecation warning for dh_clean -k.
8 * In v8 mode, do not allow directly passing unknown options to debhelper
9 commands. (Unknown options in DH_OPTIONS still only result in warnings.)
10 * In v8 mode, dh_makeshlibs will run dpkg-gensymbols on all shared
11 libraries it generates shlibs files for. This means that -X can be
12 used to exclude libraries from processing by dpkg-gensymbols. It also
13 means that libraries in unusual locations, where dpkg-gensymbols does
14 not itself normally look will be passed to it, a behavior change which
15 may break some packages. Closes: #557603
16 * dh_testversion: Removed this deprecated command.
17 * debian/compress files are now deprecated. Seems only one package
18 (genesis) still uses them.
19 * dh_fixperms: Tighten globs used to find library .so files,
20 avoiding incorrectly matching things like "foo.sources". Closes: #583328
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 May 2010 20:01:19 -0400
24 debhelper (7.4.20) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Drop one more call to dpkg-architecture. Closes: #580837
28 * Further reduce the number of calls to dpkg-architecture to zero,
29 in a typical package with no explicit architecture mentions
30 in control file or debhelper config files.
31 * dh_perl: use debian_abi for XS modules. Closes: #581233
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 2010 20:06:02 -0400
35 debhelper (7.4.19) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Memoize architecture comparisons in samearch, and avoid calling
38 dpkg-architecture at all for simple comparisons that clearly
39 do not involve architecture wildcards. Closes:# 579317
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:45:07 -0400
43 debhelper (7.4.18) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_gconf: Depend on new gconf2 that uses triggers, and stop
46 calling triggered programs manually. Closes: #577179
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:23:38 -0400
50 debhelper (7.4.17) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Fix #572077 in one place I missed earlier. (See #576885)
53 * dh: Fixed example of overriding binary target.
54 * Began finalizing list of changes for v8 compat level.
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:23:43 -0400
58 debhelper (7.4.16) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Updated French translation.
61 * makefile buildsystem: Chomp output during test for full compatibility
62 with debhelper 7.4.11. Closes: #570503
63 * dh_install: Now --list-missing and --fail-missing are useful even when
64 not all packages are acted on (due to architecture limits or flags).
66 * Typo. Closes: #571968
67 * If neither -a or -i are specified, debhelper commands used to default
68 to acting on all packages in the control file, which was a guaranteed
69 failure if the control file listed packages that did not build for the
70 target architecture. After recent optimisations, this default behavior
71 can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
72 packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
73 is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
74 * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
75 * dh: Allow --list-addons to be used when not in a source package.
77 * dh: Improve documentation.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:06:50 -0400
81 debhelper (7.4.15) unstable; urgency=low
83 * The fix for #563557 caused some new trouble involving makefile
84 that misbehave when stderr is closed. Reopen it to /dev/null
85 when testing for the existance of a makefile target. Closes: #570443
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:34 -0500
89 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
92 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
96 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
99 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
103 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
106 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
107 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
108 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
109 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
110 options that they do not support.
111 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
112 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
113 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
114 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
115 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
116 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
121 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
125 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
126 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
127 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
128 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
129 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
130 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
131 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
132 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
133 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
137 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
140 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
141 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
142 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
143 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
147 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Typo. Closes: #558654
150 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
151 installed. Closes: #558782
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
155 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
158 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
159 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
160 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
161 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
162 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
166 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
168 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
169 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
170 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
171 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
175 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
178 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
179 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
183 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
185 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
189 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
191 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
192 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
193 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
194 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
195 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
196 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
197 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
198 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
199 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
200 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
201 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
202 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
203 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
204 time soon.) Closes: #554509
205 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
207 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
208 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
209 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
210 document id. Closes: #555677
211 * Typo. Closes: #555659
212 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
213 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
214 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
215 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
217 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
218 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
219 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
224 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
227 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
228 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
229 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
230 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
231 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
232 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
233 translation (#494300 part 2)
236 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
238 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
239 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
240 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
241 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
242 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
246 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
249 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
250 (It was only run once due to logging.)
251 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
252 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
253 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
254 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
255 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
256 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
257 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
258 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
259 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
260 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
264 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
268 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
271 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
272 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
276 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
279 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
280 flag with arch all/any packages.
281 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
282 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
283 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
284 situation. Closes: #540794
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
288 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
292 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
293 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
294 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
295 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
296 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
299 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
300 the default. Closes: #538201
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
305 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
309 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
310 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
311 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
312 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
313 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
315 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
316 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
317 * Above Closes: #491117
318 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
323 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
326 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
329 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
330 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
331 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
335 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
338 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
339 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
340 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
341 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
342 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
347 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
350 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
351 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
355 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
357 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
361 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
363 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
364 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
366 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
367 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
368 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
372 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
374 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
375 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
379 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
381 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
385 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
387 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
388 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
389 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
394 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
396 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
400 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
403 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
404 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
405 created by using `python' first during build and install.
407 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
412 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
414 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
418 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
420 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
421 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
425 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
427 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
431 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
433 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
437 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
439 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
440 contributed by Modestas Vainius
441 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
442 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
443 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
444 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
445 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
446 that support it. Closes: #480577
447 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
448 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
449 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
451 - Adds support for cmake.
452 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
453 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
455 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
457 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
458 that use them. The options are:
459 --sourcedir, --destdir
460 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
461 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
462 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
463 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
464 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
468 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
474 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
477 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
478 default. Closes: #537140
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
482 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
485 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
486 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
490 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
492 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
493 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
497 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
500 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
504 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
506 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
507 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
509 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
510 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
511 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
515 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
518 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
519 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
520 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
524 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
527 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
528 warning or deprecation message.
529 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
530 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
531 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
532 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
533 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
534 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
535 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
536 Closes: #534639, #357434
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
540 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
546 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
549 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
550 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
551 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
552 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
554 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
555 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
556 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
560 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
573 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
575 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
576 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
580 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
582 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
584 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
585 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
587 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
588 file support. Closes: #494914
589 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
593 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
596 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
597 parameters. Closes: #527256
598 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
599 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
600 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
604 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
608 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
609 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
610 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
614 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
617 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
618 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
619 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
623 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
626 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
627 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
629 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
630 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
631 by triggers). Closes: #521181
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
635 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
639 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
643 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
645 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
646 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
647 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
648 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
649 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
654 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
656 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
660 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
663 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
664 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
665 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
666 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
667 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
669 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
670 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
671 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
672 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
673 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
674 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
678 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
681 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
682 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
683 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
684 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
685 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
687 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
691 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
693 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
697 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
699 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
700 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
701 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
702 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
703 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
704 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
705 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
706 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
707 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
708 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
709 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
713 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
715 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
716 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
718 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
719 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
720 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
721 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
723 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
724 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
728 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
730 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
731 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
732 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
733 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
734 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
735 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
736 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
738 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
739 that uses them. Affected options are:
740 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
741 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
742 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
743 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
744 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
745 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
746 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
747 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
748 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
749 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
750 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
751 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
755 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
762 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
768 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
770 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
771 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
773 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
774 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
775 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
776 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
777 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
779 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
781 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
782 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
783 rules (see bug #509756).
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
787 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
790 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
793 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
794 * Typo. Closes: #493062
795 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
796 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
800 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
803 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
804 empty files. Closes: #490937
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
808 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
814 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
816 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
821 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
824 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
825 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
826 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
827 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
832 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
834 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
835 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
836 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
837 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
841 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
844 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
845 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
846 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
847 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
848 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
852 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
854 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
859 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
861 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
862 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
863 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
864 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
865 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
866 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
867 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
868 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
869 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
870 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
874 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
876 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
877 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
878 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
879 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
880 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
882 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
883 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
884 breaking backwards compatibility.
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
888 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
891 message in perl 5.10.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
895 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
901 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Convert copyright file to new format.
904 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
908 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
911 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
915 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
917 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
918 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
919 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
920 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
921 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
922 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
923 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
924 logging by dh_listpackages.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
928 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
931 run and there are no packages of that type.
932 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
933 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
934 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
935 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
937 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
938 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
942 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
944 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
945 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
946 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
950 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
953 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
954 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
956 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
957 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
958 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
959 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
960 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
961 planned but not yet implemented.)
962 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
963 if the Makefile has such a target.
964 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
965 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
966 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
967 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
968 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
969 but not yet implemented.)
970 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
971 recommended default, especially when using dh.
972 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
973 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
974 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
976 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
978 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
979 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
981 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
982 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
983 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
988 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
991 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
992 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
996 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
998 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
999 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
1000 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
1004 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
1010 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
1016 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
1019 just those installed by the program.
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
1023 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
1026 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
1027 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
1031 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
1034 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
1035 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
1036 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
1037 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
1041 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
1044 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
1045 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
1049 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
1052 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
1053 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
1057 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
1060 with policy. Closes: #461392
1061 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
1062 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
1063 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
1064 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
1065 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
1069 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
1072 Closes: #460340, #460351
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
1076 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
1079 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
1080 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
1081 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
1082 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
1086 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1089 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1090 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1091 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1092 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1093 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1094 package build directory won't work.
1095 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1096 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1097 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1098 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1099 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1100 mode. Closes: #459426
1101 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1106 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1109 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1113 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1117 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1118 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1119 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1120 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1121 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1122 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1126 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1129 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1130 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1131 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1132 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1136 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1139 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1140 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1141 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1142 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1143 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1147 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1150 debian/package.triggers files.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1154 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1157 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1164 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1165 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1166 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1167 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1172 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1175 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1179 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1182 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1183 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1185 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1190 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1194 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1195 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1196 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1200 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1207 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1214 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1217 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1219 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1220 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1221 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1223 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1224 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1225 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1229 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1232 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1233 * Update urls to web page.
1234 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1235 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1236 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1237 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1241 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1244 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1245 - typo in alternatives call
1246 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1248 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1249 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1253 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1256 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1261 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1267 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1273 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1276 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1278 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1279 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1280 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1281 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1282 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1283 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1284 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1285 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1286 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1287 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1288 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1292 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1295 package install. Closes: #415717
1296 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1297 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1298 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1299 script and then remove the python files.
1300 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1301 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1302 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1303 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1304 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1305 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1306 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1307 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1308 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1309 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1310 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1311 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1312 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1316 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Correct typo in french translation
1322 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1323 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1325 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1327 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1328 Closes: #406921, #381940
1329 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1331 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1332 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1333 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1334 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1335 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1336 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1337 specified). Closes: #381851
1338 * Misc minor changes.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1342 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1349 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1350 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1354 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1360 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1361 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1364 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1365 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1367 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1368 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1369 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1370 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1374 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1377 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1380 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1384 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1390 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1396 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1397 a difficult situation.
1398 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1399 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1400 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1401 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1402 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1403 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1404 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1405 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1406 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1407 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1411 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Non-maintainer upload.
1414 * Update of dh_python
1415 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1416 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1418 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1419 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1420 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1421 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1422 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1424 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1426 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Non-maintainer upload.
1429 * Update of dh_python
1430 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1431 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1432 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1433 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1434 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1435 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1436 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1437 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1438 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1439 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1441 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1442 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1443 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1444 the not too-distant future).
1445 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1446 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1447 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1448 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1449 thus made the build fail.
1451 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1453 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Non-maintainer upload.
1456 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1458 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1460 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1463 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1464 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1465 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1466 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1467 package. Closes: #301424
1468 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1469 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1470 fonts). Closes: #372686
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1474 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1480 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1481 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1482 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1483 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1484 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1485 above, but already depends on that.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1489 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1492 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1493 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1494 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1495 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1496 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1500 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1506 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1512 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1513 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1517 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1520 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1524 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1528 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1529 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1530 new version (0.24.1).
1531 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1532 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1535 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1536 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1537 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1538 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1539 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1540 new directory on their own.
1541 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1542 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1546 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1549 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1550 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1551 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1552 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1556 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1559 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1560 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1561 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1562 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1563 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1567 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1573 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1577 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1578 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1582 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1583 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1587 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1589 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1590 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1592 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1593 ignored. Closes: #337664
1595 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1600 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1606 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1611 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1612 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1613 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1614 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1615 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1616 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1617 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1621 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1624 version. Closes: #350607
1625 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1626 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1627 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1628 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1632 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1635 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1636 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1637 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1641 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1648 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1654 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1657 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1661 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1664 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1665 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1666 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1667 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1668 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1669 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1673 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1676 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1677 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1682 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1685 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1689 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1692 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1696 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1699 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1700 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1701 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1702 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1703 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1704 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1708 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1712 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1713 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1714 link. Closes: #346405
1715 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1717 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1718 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1719 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1720 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1721 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1722 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1723 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1727 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1734 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1740 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1743 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1747 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1750 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1755 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1759 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1760 installed. Closes: #342033
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1764 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1767 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1768 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1769 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1774 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1780 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1786 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1790 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1791 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1792 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1796 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1799 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1804 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1811 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1817 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1820 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1821 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1822 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1823 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1824 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1825 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1826 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1828 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1835 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1836 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1840 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1843 in standard man dirs.
1844 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1857 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1876 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1879 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1880 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1884 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1887 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1888 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1889 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1891 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1893 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1899 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1908 mode. Closes: #324161
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1915 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1916 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1917 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1918 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1926 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1927 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1928 is necesary for sanity.
1929 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1930 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1935 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1937 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1938 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1942 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1945 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1949 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1955 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1958 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1959 released, so use at your own risk.
1960 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1961 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1963 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1964 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1965 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1966 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1967 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1968 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1969 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1970 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1971 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1972 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1973 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1974 including twice per config file line now..
1975 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1976 and simplfy the rules file.
1977 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1978 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1979 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1981 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1982 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1986 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1989 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1993 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1996 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
2000 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
2003 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
2007 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
2010 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
2011 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
2012 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
2013 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
2014 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
2015 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
2019 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
2022 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
2023 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
2024 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
2029 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
2032 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
2033 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
2038 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
2041 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
2042 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
2043 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
2048 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
2051 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
2052 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
2053 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
2057 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
2070 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
2073 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
2074 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
2075 unknown. Closes: #282924
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
2079 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
2086 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Spanish man page updates.
2089 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2094 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2100 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2103 * dh_desktop: reindent
2104 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2105 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2115 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2117 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2121 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2123 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2127 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2130 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2131 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2135 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2147 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2154 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2157 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2161 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2164 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2165 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2166 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2167 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2168 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2169 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2171 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2172 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2173 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2174 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2175 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2176 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2177 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2178 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2179 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2180 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2181 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2182 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2183 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2184 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2185 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2186 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2190 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2200 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2204 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2207 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2211 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2214 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2221 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2225 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2231 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2243 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2246 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2247 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2248 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2252 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2255 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2262 but occasionally right and necessary.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2269 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2270 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2271 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2272 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2273 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2277 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2280 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2282 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2283 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2284 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2285 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2286 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2287 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2288 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2289 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2290 postinst scripts for udebs.
2291 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2295 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2298 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2300 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2301 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2311 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2318 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2328 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2332 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2335 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2342 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2345 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2346 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2356 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2359 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2363 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2366 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2367 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2368 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2370 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2372 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2373 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2374 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2378 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2381 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2386 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2389 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2390 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2391 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2396 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2402 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2411 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2412 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2413 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2414 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2415 associated -dbg packages.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2419 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2422 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2426 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2429 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2433 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2436 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2440 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2443 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2448 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2451 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2455 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2458 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2463 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2466 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2474 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2475 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2476 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2477 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2478 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2479 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2480 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2481 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2482 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2483 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2490 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2495 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2498 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2499 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2503 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2506 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2507 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2512 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2515 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2519 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2522 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2526 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2529 out section number. Closes: #204731
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2533 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2540 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2546 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2552 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2555 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2556 removal. Closes: #204286
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2563 renaming. Closes: #203548
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2567 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2570 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2571 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2587 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2593 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2596 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2597 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2598 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2605 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2606 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2610 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2616 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2626 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2631 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2634 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2638 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2641 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2643 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2644 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2651 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2656 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2659 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2663 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2671 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2678 it break hard links (see #188663).
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2682 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2685 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2689 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2695 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2699 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2700 debconf-mergetemplates
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2704 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2707 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2711 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2714 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2718 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2721 * Update debhelper(1).
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2725 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2728 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2729 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2730 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2731 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2732 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2736 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2739 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2740 the shell. Closes: #178524
2741 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2745 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2748 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2752 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2755 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2762 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2763 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2764 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2765 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2770 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2773 files from installation.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2777 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2780 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2781 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2785 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2788 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2792 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2795 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2799 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2805 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2811 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2815 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2816 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2818 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2822 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2825 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2826 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2827 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2828 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2832 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2835 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2839 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2842 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2843 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2847 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2851 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2856 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2862 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2866 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2867 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2868 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2876 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2877 practice. Closes: #163303
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2881 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2887 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2894 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2897 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2899 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2900 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2901 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2902 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2903 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2910 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2915 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2921 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2928 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2931 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2936 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2942 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2954 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2961 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2964 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2965 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2966 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2967 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2972 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2978 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2985 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2988 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2989 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2996 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2997 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2998 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2999 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
3000 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
3004 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
3007 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
3009 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
3014 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
3017 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
3021 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
3024 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
3025 right thing. Closes: #150644
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
3029 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Stupid, evil typo.
3032 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
3036 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
3043 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
3046 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
3047 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
3052 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
3058 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
3061 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
3065 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
3068 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
3069 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
3074 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
3077 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
3081 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
3087 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3090 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3091 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3095 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3101 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * Removing perl warning message.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3107 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3110 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3111 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3112 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3113 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3114 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3115 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3116 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3117 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3121 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3127 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3134 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3137 debconf-mergetemplate.
3138 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3139 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3143 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3146 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3147 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3148 dh_install, which ...
3149 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3150 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3151 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3152 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3153 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3154 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3155 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3156 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3157 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3158 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3159 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3160 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3161 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3162 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3163 other minor changes.
3164 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3165 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3166 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3167 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3168 course there's -X ..)
3169 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3170 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3171 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3173 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3174 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3175 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3176 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3177 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3188 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3191 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3201 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3207 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3213 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3219 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3222 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3223 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3224 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3225 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3227 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3228 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3232 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3238 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3241 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3245 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3248 upset. Closes: #131322
3250 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3255 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3256 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3257 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3258 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3259 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3260 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3261 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3262 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3263 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3264 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3265 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3266 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3267 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3268 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3269 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3271 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3275 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3278 - Better indenting of generated code.
3279 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3283 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3287 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3288 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3289 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3290 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3291 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3292 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3293 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3297 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3300 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3304 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3307 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3308 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3309 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3310 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3311 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3312 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3313 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3314 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3315 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3316 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3317 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3318 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3319 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3320 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3321 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3326 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3332 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3335 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3336 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3340 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3343 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3344 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3348 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3354 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3357 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3358 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3359 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3360 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3361 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3366 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3372 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3375 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3379 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3382 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3387 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3393 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3396 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3400 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3406 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3410 Also some indentation fixes.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3414 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3417 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3418 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3419 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3420 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3421 Closes: #106514, #85520
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3431 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3437 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3443 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3449 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3455 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3458 change it in debhelper v4..
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3462 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3468 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3471 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3475 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3478 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3482 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3488 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3491 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3492 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3493 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3494 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3495 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3496 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3497 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3498 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3499 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3500 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3501 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3502 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3506 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3509 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3513 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3520 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3523 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3524 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3525 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3526 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3527 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3528 program those options go to. So, for example,
3529 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3530 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3531 something complex. Closes: #89311
3532 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3536 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3539 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3540 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3541 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3545 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3547 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3548 through loop. Closes: #98598
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3552 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Missing semi-colon.
3555 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3556 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3560 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3563 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3564 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3565 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3569 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3572 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3573 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3577 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3580 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3584 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3587 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3588 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3592 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3595 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3596 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3597 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3601 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3604 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3605 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3606 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3610 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3613 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3617 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3619 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3623 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3629 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3635 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3641 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3644 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3648 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3651 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3652 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3653 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3654 followed. Closes: #85483
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3658 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3660 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3661 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3662 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3666 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3669 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3670 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3671 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3672 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3673 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3674 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3675 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3676 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3677 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3678 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3679 Closes: #88464, #77743
3680 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3681 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3682 us to deal with that gracefully.
3683 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3685 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3686 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3687 a while, Closes: #51225
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3691 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3697 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3700 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3704 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3708 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3713 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3716 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3717 don't make packlist files.
3718 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3719 debhelper coding standards.
3720 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3721 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3725 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3728 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3732 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3735 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3736 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3737 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3738 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3739 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3740 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3741 but is mildly deprecated.
3742 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3743 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3744 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3745 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3746 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3747 switching to statoverrides..
3748 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3749 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3750 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3751 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3752 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3753 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3755 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3756 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3757 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3758 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3759 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3760 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3761 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3762 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3763 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3765 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3766 variable names, pod man pages).
3767 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3768 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3769 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3770 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3771 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3772 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3773 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3777 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3783 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3790 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3793 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3799 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3800 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3801 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3807 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3808 they were previously ignored.
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3812 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3814 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3815 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3819 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3821 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3822 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3823 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3827 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3829 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3835 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3836 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3842 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3843 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3844 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3845 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3846 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3847 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3848 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3849 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3850 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3851 it is an obsolete program.
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3855 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3857 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3861 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3865 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3867 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3871 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3875 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3877 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3881 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * typo: Closes, #78567
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3893 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3899 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3905 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3908 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3909 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3910 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3911 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3912 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3916 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3919 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3924 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3927 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3928 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3929 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3930 backwards-compatibility.
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3937 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3938 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3939 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3940 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3941 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3942 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3944 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3945 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3946 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3948 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3950 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3951 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3952 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3953 should now be raised to severity important..
3954 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3955 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3959 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3962 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3973 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3979 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3981 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3985 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3995 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3996 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3997 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3998 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
4011 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
4012 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
4013 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
4014 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
4015 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
4016 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
4019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
4021 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4023 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
4024 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
4028 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
4034 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
4037 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
4045 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
4046 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
4047 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
4048 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
4050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
4052 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4054 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
4056 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
4059 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
4062 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
4063 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
4066 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
4068 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
4069 the TODO entry about it.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
4073 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
4080 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
4083 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
4084 prevent that. Closes: #73052
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4088 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4091 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4092 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4093 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4094 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4098 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4114 (this appears to be logal).
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4121 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4122 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4123 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4124 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4134 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4136 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4137 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4138 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4139 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4140 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4144 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4153 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4157 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4164 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4167 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4168 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4169 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4187 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4190 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4191 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4192 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4193 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4194 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4195 notice until v2 is complete.
4196 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4197 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4198 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4199 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4200 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4201 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4203 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4204 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4205 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4206 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4210 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4216 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4218 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4226 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4230 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4240 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4241 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4242 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4243 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4251 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4252 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4253 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4258 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4261 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4262 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4269 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4273 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4275 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4276 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4287 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4290 depend on the build and install targets.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4294 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4297 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4301 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4308 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4314 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4320 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4323 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4324 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4325 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4326 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4327 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4328 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4330 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4331 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4332 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4333 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4334 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4335 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4336 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4340 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4346 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4352 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4355 right place. Closes: #55065
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4359 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4366 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4368 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4369 * Copyright date updates.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4373 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4376 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4381 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4387 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4394 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4400 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4406 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4412 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4415 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4416 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4417 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4418 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4419 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4420 bits until all files have been registered.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4424 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installmanpages:
4427 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4428 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4429 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4430 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4431 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4432 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4433 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4434 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4435 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4436 otherwise change the result at all.
4438 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4439 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4440 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4441 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4442 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4447 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4453 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4456 act on files that don't exist.
4457 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4458 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4459 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4461 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4462 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4463 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4464 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4468 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4474 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4476 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4480 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4483 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4487 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4489 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4490 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4492 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4493 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4494 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4498 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4501 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4502 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4503 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4504 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4505 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4506 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4507 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4509 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4511 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4515 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4522 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4524 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4537 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4541 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4543 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4553 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4556 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4557 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4558 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4559 I made some changes, though:
4560 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4561 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4562 that is a clear violation of policy.
4563 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4564 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4565 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4566 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4567 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4568 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4569 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4570 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4571 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4573 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4577 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4579 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4583 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4585 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4586 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4590 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4593 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4594 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4599 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4601 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4605 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4607 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4615 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4616 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4617 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4618 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4619 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4620 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4621 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4625 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4631 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4633 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4635 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4636 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4649 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4656 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4657 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4663 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4672 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4676 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4679 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4680 for the dependancies to be generated.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4684 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4687 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4694 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4695 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4696 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4701 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4703 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4704 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4705 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4709 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4715 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4724 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4728 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4734 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4736 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4737 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4738 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4739 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4740 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4741 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4742 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4743 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4744 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4745 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4746 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4747 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4748 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4752 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4755 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4756 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4758 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4759 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4760 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4761 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4762 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4763 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4765 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4766 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4770 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4773 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4777 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4784 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4786 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4787 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4792 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4794 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4795 for building debhelper.
4796 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4800 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4807 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4809 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4810 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4817 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4818 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4819 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4820 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4821 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4822 it's always available.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4826 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4829 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4830 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4831 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4835 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4838 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4839 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4843 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4845 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4849 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4852 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4856 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4862 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4865 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4866 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4867 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4871 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4873 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4874 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4879 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4882 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4883 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4885 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4886 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4890 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4896 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4898 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4902 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4905 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4909 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4912 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4913 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4915 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4919 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4921 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4922 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4923 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4924 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4928 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4931 things if CDPATH is set.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4935 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4941 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4944 seems to make sense for the transition.
4946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4948 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4950 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4951 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4956 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4959 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4960 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4964 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4966 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4967 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4971 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4974 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4975 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4976 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4977 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4981 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4983 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4987 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4990 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4991 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4992 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4993 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4994 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4995 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4996 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4997 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4998 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4999 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
5004 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
5007 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
5008 * README: mention doc/v2
5009 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
5010 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
5016 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
5017 be using this script RSN.
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
5024 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
5025 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
5026 more than 1 init script.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
5030 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
5033 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
5037 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * Changed perl version detection.
5040 * Changed call to find.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
5044 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
5047 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
5049 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
5054 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * Really include dh_installpam.
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
5060 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
5063 * Wrote man page for same.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
5067 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
5070 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
5071 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
5074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
5076 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
5078 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
5083 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
5085 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
5086 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
5087 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5088 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5089 x bit was being set!
5091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5093 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5095 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5096 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5097 well. (Closes: 38900)
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5104 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5105 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5109 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5115 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5117 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5122 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5124 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5128 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5131 help from Julian Gilbey.
5132 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5133 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5134 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5135 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5136 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5137 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5138 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5143 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5156 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5162 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5168 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5171 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5175 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5178 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5182 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5184 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5185 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5189 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5195 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5198 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5202 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5204 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5208 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5210 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5214 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5217 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5218 may be deleted. (#35845)
5220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5222 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5224 * Various man page enhancements.
5225 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5230 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5232 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5233 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5234 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5238 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5240 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5241 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5242 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5243 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5245 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5246 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5251 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5253 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * Another very minor typo fix.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Very minor typo fix.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5269 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5272 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5273 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5277 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5279 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5283 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5285 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5286 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5287 variables properly (#34850).
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5291 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5297 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5299 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5300 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5301 (automatically generated by build process).
5303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5305 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5307 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5311 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5314 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5315 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5317 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5324 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5330 * README: minor typo fix.
5332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5334 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5336 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5337 leave it at that. :-)
5339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5341 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5343 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5353 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5355 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5356 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5357 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5358 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5365 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5369 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5372 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5376 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5378 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5379 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5380 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5381 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5382 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5386 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5389 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5390 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5391 Craig Small for spotting this.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5395 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5398 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5399 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5409 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5411 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5412 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5418 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5419 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5420 working on the last version of debhelper.
5422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5424 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5426 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5427 being made. (#23255)
5429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5431 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5433 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5437 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5439 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5440 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5444 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5446 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5447 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5448 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5449 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5450 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5454 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5456 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5457 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5458 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5459 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5460 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5462 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5463 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5465 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5470 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5482 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5484 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5485 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5486 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5487 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5488 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5489 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5490 suidregister actually supports it.
5491 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5492 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5496 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5503 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5506 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5507 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5508 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5509 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5510 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5511 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5512 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5516 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5518 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5519 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5523 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5526 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5527 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5528 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5529 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5533 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5535 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5536 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5538 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5539 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5540 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5541 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5542 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5543 effect, either. (#30118)
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5547 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5549 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5553 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5555 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5556 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5557 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5561 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5567 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5569 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5570 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5571 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5572 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5573 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5577 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5580 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5581 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5585 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5587 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5591 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5594 packages, painlessly.
5596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5598 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5600 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5604 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5610 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5612 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5616 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * The perl conversion is complete.
5620 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5622 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5623 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5624 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5629 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5632 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5633 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5634 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5638 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5641 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5643 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5645 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5646 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5650 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5652 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5653 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5654 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5658 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5664 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5666 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5667 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5668 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5669 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5670 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5671 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5675 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5677 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5678 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5679 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5680 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5681 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5685 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5688 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5692 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5695 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5696 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5697 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5698 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5699 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5700 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5701 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5702 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5706 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5712 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5714 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5715 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5716 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5717 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5722 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5725 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5729 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5732 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5736 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5739 sections of shared libraries.
5740 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5741 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5742 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5743 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5744 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5745 things you don't want them to.
5746 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5747 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5751 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5753 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5754 shared libraries. (#26414)
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5758 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5760 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5761 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5762 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5763 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5767 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5769 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5771 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5773 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5774 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5775 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5776 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5777 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5781 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5783 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5784 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5788 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5791 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5792 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5797 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5800 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5804 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5807 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5808 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5809 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5810 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5811 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5813 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5814 remove debian/files properly.
5815 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5816 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5817 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5818 * Removed bogus menu file.
5820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5822 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5824 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5825 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5829 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5831 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5832 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5833 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5834 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5835 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5836 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5837 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5841 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5844 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5845 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5846 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5847 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5851 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5858 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5861 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5862 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5864 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5865 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5866 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5867 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5868 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5869 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5873 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5875 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5876 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5877 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5878 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5879 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5880 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5881 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5882 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5883 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5884 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5885 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5886 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5887 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5888 passed any switches.
5889 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5893 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5895 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5896 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5897 at all for a long while.
5898 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5899 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5900 large chunks in the process.
5901 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5902 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5903 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5908 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5910 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5911 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5913 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5918 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5921 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5922 that don't always have the same files in them.
5923 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5924 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5925 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5929 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5931 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5933 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5934 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5935 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5936 updating 27 man pages.
5937 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5938 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5939 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5940 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5941 programs act on. (#25247)
5943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5945 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5949 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5950 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5951 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5952 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5953 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5954 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5959 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5961 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5966 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5968 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5973 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5976 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5980 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5986 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5988 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5989 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5990 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5991 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5992 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5993 package by accident.
5994 * Is version 1.0 next?
5996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5998 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
6000 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
6001 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
6002 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
6006 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
6009 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
6010 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
6011 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
6012 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
6013 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
6015 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
6020 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
6023 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
6024 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
6028 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
6031 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
6035 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
6038 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
6039 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
6042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
6044 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
6046 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
6050 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
6053 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
6054 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
6057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
6059 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
6061 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
6065 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
6068 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
6069 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
6070 past week. Thanks, guys!
6072 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
6073 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
6074 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
6075 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
6076 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
6077 would do in the same situation.
6078 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
6079 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
6081 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
6083 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
6084 permissions changed.
6085 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
6086 some people enjoy changing root's name.
6087 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6088 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6089 files are treated identically.
6090 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6091 * Minor man page fixes.
6092 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6093 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6094 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6098 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6100 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6101 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6102 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6103 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6104 use -X multiple times, too.
6105 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6106 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6110 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6112 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6113 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6114 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6118 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6120 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6121 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6125 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6128 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6129 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6130 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6131 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6132 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6133 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6134 shape if you're starting a new package.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6138 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6141 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6145 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6147 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6148 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6149 because of missing symlinks.
6151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6153 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6155 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6159 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6161 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6162 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6163 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6164 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6165 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6166 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6168 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6169 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6175 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6176 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6177 to be changed after the fact :-)
6178 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6182 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6184 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6185 no version string after the -V.
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6189 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6191 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6192 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6197 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6200 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6204 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6206 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6207 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6208 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6209 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6210 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6211 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6212 I always welcome corrections!
6214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6216 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6218 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6222 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6225 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6226 * Documented this new switch.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6230 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6233 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6234 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6235 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6236 no packages use the old behavior.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6240 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6243 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6244 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6248 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6251 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6255 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6257 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6261 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6263 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6264 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6268 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6270 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6271 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6272 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6273 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6277 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6279 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6283 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6285 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6286 into the source package by accident.
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6290 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6293 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6294 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6295 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6296 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6297 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6298 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6303 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6305 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6307 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6308 inspired to implement some of it.
6309 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6313 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6316 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6320 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6323 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6324 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6328 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6330 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6331 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6332 have done.) (#17598)
6334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6336 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6338 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6342 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6344 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6351 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6355 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6357 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6358 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6359 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6363 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6366 argument processor in perl.
6367 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6368 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6369 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6370 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6374 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6376 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6377 type directories. (#16933)
6378 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6379 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6380 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6381 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6382 are supported. (#16935)
6383 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6388 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6391 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6395 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6397 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6399 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6400 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6401 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6402 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6403 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6404 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6408 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6410 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6411 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6412 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6414 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6415 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6416 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6417 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6418 a given package, or -i or -a.
6419 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6420 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6421 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6422 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6423 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6424 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6425 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6426 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6427 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6429 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6430 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6431 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6438 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6439 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6444 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6446 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6447 does not have a section.
6449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6451 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6453 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6454 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6455 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6456 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6460 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6462 * Fixed typo #16215.
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6469 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6470 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6471 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6472 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6473 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6478 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6480 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6481 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6482 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6483 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6488 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6490 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6494 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6496 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6500 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6502 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6503 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6504 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6505 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6506 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6507 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6508 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6512 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6514 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6521 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6525 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6527 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6528 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6529 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6530 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6534 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6536 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6537 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6541 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6547 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6549 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6550 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6554 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6556 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6557 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6561 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6563 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6567 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6569 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6570 postinst, postrm, etc.
6572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6574 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6576 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6580 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6582 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6583 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6584 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6585 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6586 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6587 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6591 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6593 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6594 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6595 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6599 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6601 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6602 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6606 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6608 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6609 installing package files into.
6610 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6615 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6617 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6619 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6623 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6625 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6629 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6631 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6632 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6636 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6638 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6639 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6640 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6641 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6642 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6646 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6648 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6649 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6650 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6651 multiple binary packages.
6652 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6653 should rebuild them with this version.
6654 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6658 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6660 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6661 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6665 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6667 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6668 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6672 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6674 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6675 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6676 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6677 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6678 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6679 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6680 debian/README.debian.
6681 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6682 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6683 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6684 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6685 in a few situations.)
6687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6689 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6691 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6695 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6697 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6701 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6703 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6704 * Fixed several man pages.
6706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6708 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6710 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6711 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6712 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6716 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6718 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6719 is ready for general use.
6720 * Added man pages for all commands.
6721 * Multiple binary package support.
6722 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6723 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6724 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6726 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6727 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6728 auto-installed as parameters.
6729 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6731 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6734 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6735 the package build directory it is to act on.
6736 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6737 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6738 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6742 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6744 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6745 ready to replace debstd.
6747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400