1 debhelper (7.1.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
4 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
5 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
6 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
7 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
8 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
9 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
11 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
12 that uses them. Affected options are:
13 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
14 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
15 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
16 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
17 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
18 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
19 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
20 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
21 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
22 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
23 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
24 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
28 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
31 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
34 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
35 * Typo. Closes: #493062
36 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
37 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
41 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
44 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
45 empty files. Closes: #490937
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
49 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
55 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
62 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
65 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
66 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
67 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
68 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
73 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
75 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
76 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
77 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
78 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
82 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
85 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
86 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
87 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
88 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
89 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
93 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
100 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
102 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
103 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
104 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
105 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
106 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
107 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
108 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
109 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
110 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
111 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
115 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
118 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
119 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
120 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
121 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
123 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
124 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
125 breaking backwards compatability.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
129 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
132 message in perl 5.10.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
136 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
142 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Convert copyright file to new format.
145 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
149 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
152 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
156 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
159 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
160 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
161 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
162 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
163 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
164 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
165 logging by dh_listpackages.
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
169 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
172 run and there are no packages of that type.
173 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
174 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
175 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
176 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
178 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
179 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
183 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
185 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
186 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
187 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
191 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
193 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
194 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
195 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
197 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
198 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
199 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
200 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
201 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
202 planned but not yet implemented.)
203 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
204 if the Makefile has such a target.
205 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
206 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
207 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
208 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
209 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
210 but not yet implemented.)
211 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
212 recommended default, especially when using dh.
213 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
214 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
215 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
217 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
219 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
220 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
222 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
223 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
224 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
229 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
232 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
233 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
237 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
239 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
240 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
241 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
245 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
251 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
257 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
260 just those installed by the program.
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
264 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
267 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
268 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
272 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
275 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
276 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
277 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
278 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
282 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
285 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
286 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
290 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
293 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
294 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
298 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
301 with policy. Closes: #461392
302 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
303 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
304 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
305 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
306 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
310 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
313 Closes: #460340, #460351
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
317 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
320 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
321 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
322 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
323 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
327 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
330 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
331 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
332 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
333 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
334 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
335 package build directory won't work.
336 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
337 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
338 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
339 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
340 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
341 mode. Closes: #459426
342 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
347 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
350 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
354 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
358 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
359 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
360 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
361 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
362 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
363 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
367 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
370 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
371 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
372 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
373 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
377 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
380 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
381 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
382 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
383 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
384 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
388 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
391 debian/package.triggers files.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
395 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
398 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
402 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
405 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
406 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
407 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
408 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
413 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
416 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
420 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
422 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
423 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
424 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
426 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
431 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
433 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
435 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
436 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
437 * Typo. Closes: #441272
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
441 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
448 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
455 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
458 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
460 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
461 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
462 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
464 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
465 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
466 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
470 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
473 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
474 * Update urls to web page.
475 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
477 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
478 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
482 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
484 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
485 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
486 - typo in alternatives call
487 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
489 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
490 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
494 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
497 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
502 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
508 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
514 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
516 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
517 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
519 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
520 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
521 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
522 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
523 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
524 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
525 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
526 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
527 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
528 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
529 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
533 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
536 package install. Closes: #415717
537 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
538 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
539 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
540 script and then remove the python files.
541 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
542 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
543 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
544 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
545 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
546 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
547 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
548 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
549 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
550 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
551 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
552 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
553 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
557 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
560 * Correct typo in french translation
563 * Typo. Closes: #400571
564 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
566 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
568 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
569 Closes: #406921, #381940
570 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
572 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
573 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
574 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
575 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
576 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
577 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
578 specified). Closes: #381851
579 * Misc minor changes.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
583 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
590 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
591 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
595 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
601 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
602 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
605 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
606 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
608 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
609 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
610 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
611 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
615 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
618 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
621 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
625 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
631 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
637 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
638 a difficult situation.
639 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
640 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
641 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
642 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
643 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
644 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
645 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
646 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
647 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
648 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
652 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Non-maintainer upload.
655 * Update of dh_python
656 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
657 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
659 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
660 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
661 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
662 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
663 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
665 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
667 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Non-maintainer upload.
670 * Update of dh_python
671 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
672 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
673 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
674 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
675 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
676 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
677 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
678 specific python version. Closes: #373853
679 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
680 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
682 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
683 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
684 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
685 the not too-distant future).
686 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
687 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
688 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
689 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
690 thus made the build fail.
692 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
694 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Non-maintainer upload.
697 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
699 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
701 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
703 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
704 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
705 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
706 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
707 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
708 package. Closes: #301424
709 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
710 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
711 fonts). Closes: #372686
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
715 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
721 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
722 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
723 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
724 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
725 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
726 above, but already depends on that.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
730 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
733 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
734 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
735 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
736 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
737 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
741 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
747 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
753 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
754 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
758 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
761 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
765 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
769 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
770 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
771 new version (0.24.1).
772 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
773 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
776 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
777 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
778 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
779 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
780 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
781 new directory on their own.
782 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
783 * Fix broken directory removal code.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
787 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
790 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
791 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
792 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
793 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
797 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
800 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
801 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
802 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
803 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
804 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
808 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
814 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Typo. Closes: #358904
818 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
819 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
823 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
824 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
828 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
830 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
831 || exit 0 instead of the intended
833 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
834 ignored. Closes: #337664
836 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
841 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
847 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
850 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
852 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
853 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
854 the dh_installdebconf manpage
855 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
856 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
857 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
858 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
862 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
865 version. Closes: #350607
866 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
867 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
868 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
869 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
873 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
876 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
877 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
878 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
882 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
889 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
891 * Minor bug fix from last release.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
895 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
897 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
898 language guessing. Closes: #193221
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
902 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
904 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
905 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
906 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
907 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
908 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
909 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
910 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
914 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
917 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
918 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
923 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
926 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
930 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
933 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
937 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
940 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
941 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
942 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
943 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
944 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
945 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
949 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
952 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
953 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
954 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
955 link. Closes: #346405
956 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
959 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
960 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
961 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
962 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
963 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
964 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
968 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
970 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
975 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
977 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
981 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
984 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
988 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
991 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
996 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1000 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1001 installed. Closes: #342033
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1005 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1008 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1009 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1010 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1015 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1021 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1027 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1031 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1032 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1033 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1037 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1040 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1045 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1052 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1058 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1061 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1062 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1063 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1064 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1065 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1066 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1067 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1069 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1073 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1076 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1077 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1081 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1084 in standard man dirs.
1085 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1089 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1095 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1098 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1103 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1110 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1117 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1120 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1121 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1125 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1128 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1129 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1130 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1132 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1134 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1140 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1146 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1149 mode. Closes: #324161
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1153 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1156 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1157 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1158 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1159 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1164 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1167 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1168 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1169 is necesary for sanity.
1170 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1171 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1176 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1178 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1179 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1183 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1186 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1190 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1196 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1199 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1200 released, so use at your own risk.
1201 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1202 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1204 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1205 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1206 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1207 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1208 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1209 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1210 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1211 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1212 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1213 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1214 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1215 including twice per config file line now..
1216 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1217 and simplfy the rules file.
1218 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1219 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1220 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1222 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1223 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1227 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1230 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1234 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1237 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1241 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1244 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1251 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1252 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1253 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1254 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1255 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1256 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1260 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1263 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1264 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1265 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1270 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1273 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1274 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1279 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1282 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1283 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1284 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1289 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1292 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1293 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1294 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1298 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1304 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1311 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1314 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1315 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1316 unknown. Closes: #282924
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1320 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1327 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Spanish man page updates.
1330 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1335 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1344 * dh_desktop: reindent
1345 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1346 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1350 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1356 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1358 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1364 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1368 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1371 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1372 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1376 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1382 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1388 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1395 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1398 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1402 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1405 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1406 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1407 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1408 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1409 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1410 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1412 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1413 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1414 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1415 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1416 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1417 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1418 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1419 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1420 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1421 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1422 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1423 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1424 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1425 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1426 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1427 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1431 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1438 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1441 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1445 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1448 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1452 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1455 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1459 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1462 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1466 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1472 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1478 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1484 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1487 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1488 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1489 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1493 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1496 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1500 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1503 but occasionally right and necessary.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1507 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1510 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1511 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1512 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1513 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1514 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1518 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1521 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1523 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1524 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1525 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1526 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1527 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1528 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1529 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1530 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1531 postinst scripts for udebs.
1532 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1536 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1539 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1541 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1542 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1546 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1552 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1559 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1566 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1569 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1573 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1576 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1580 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1583 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1586 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1587 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1591 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1597 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1600 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1604 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1607 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1608 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1609 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1611 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1613 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1614 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1615 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1619 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1622 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1627 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1630 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1631 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1632 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1637 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1643 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1652 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1653 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1654 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1655 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1656 associated -dbg packages.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1663 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1667 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1670 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1677 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1684 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1692 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1699 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1707 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1715 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1716 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1717 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1718 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1719 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1720 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1721 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1722 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1723 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1724 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1728 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1731 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1736 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1739 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1740 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1744 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1747 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1748 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1753 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1756 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1763 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1770 out section number. Closes: #204731
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1796 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1797 removal. Closes: #204286
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1801 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1804 renaming. Closes: #203548
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1811 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1812 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1828 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1834 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1837 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1838 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1839 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1846 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1847 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1851 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1857 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1864 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1867 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1872 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1875 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1882 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1884 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1885 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1889 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1892 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1900 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1904 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1910 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1912 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1916 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1919 it break hard links (see #188663).
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1926 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1936 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1940 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1941 debconf-mergetemplates
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1945 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1948 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1952 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1955 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1959 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1962 * Update debhelper(1).
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1966 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1969 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1970 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1971 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1972 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1973 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1980 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1981 the shell. Closes: #178524
1982 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1986 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1989 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1993 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1996 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2000 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2003 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2004 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2005 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2006 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2011 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2014 files from installation.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2018 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2021 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2022 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2026 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2029 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2033 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2036 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2040 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2046 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2052 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2056 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2057 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2059 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2063 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2066 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2067 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2068 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2069 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2073 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2076 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2080 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2083 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2084 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2088 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2092 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2097 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2107 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2108 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2109 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2114 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2117 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2118 practice. Closes: #163303
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2122 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2128 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2138 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2140 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2141 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2142 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2143 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2144 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2148 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2151 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2156 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2169 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2172 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2195 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2202 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2205 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2206 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2207 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2208 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2213 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2219 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2226 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2229 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2230 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2234 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2237 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2238 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2239 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2240 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2241 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2248 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2250 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2255 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2258 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2262 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2265 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2266 right thing. Closes: #150644
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2270 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Stupid, evil typo.
2273 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2277 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2284 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2287 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2288 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2302 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2306 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2309 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2310 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2318 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2322 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2331 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2332 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2336 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2342 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Removing perl warning message.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2348 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2351 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2352 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2353 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2354 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2355 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2356 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2357 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2358 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2362 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2368 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2378 debconf-mergetemplate.
2379 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2380 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2387 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2388 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2389 dh_install, which ...
2390 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2391 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2392 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2393 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2394 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2395 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2396 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2397 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2398 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2399 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2400 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2401 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2402 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2403 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2404 other minor changes.
2405 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2406 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2407 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2408 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2409 course there's -X ..)
2410 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2411 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2412 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2414 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2415 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2416 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2417 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2418 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2423 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2429 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2432 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2436 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2442 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2448 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2454 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2460 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2463 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2464 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2465 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2466 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2468 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2469 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2473 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2479 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2482 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2486 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2489 upset. Closes: #131322
2491 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2493 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2496 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2497 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2498 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2499 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2500 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2501 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2502 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2503 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2504 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2505 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2506 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2507 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2508 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2509 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2510 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2512 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2516 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2519 - Better indenting of generated code.
2520 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2524 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2528 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2529 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2530 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2531 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2532 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2533 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2534 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2538 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2541 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2545 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2548 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2549 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2550 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2551 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2552 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2553 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2554 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2555 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2556 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2557 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2558 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2559 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2560 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2561 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2562 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2567 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2573 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2576 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2577 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2581 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2584 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2585 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2589 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2595 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2598 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2599 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2600 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2601 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2602 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2607 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2613 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2616 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2620 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2623 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2628 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2634 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2637 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2641 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2647 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2651 Also some indentation fixes.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2655 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2658 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2659 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2660 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2661 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2662 Closes: #106514, #85520
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2666 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2672 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2678 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2684 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2690 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2696 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2699 change it in debhelper v4..
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2703 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2709 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2712 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2719 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2723 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2729 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2732 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2733 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2734 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2735 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2736 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2737 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2738 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2739 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2740 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2741 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2742 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2743 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2747 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2750 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2754 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2761 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2764 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2765 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2766 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2767 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2768 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2769 program those options go to. So, for example,
2770 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2771 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2772 something complex. Closes: #89311
2773 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2777 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2780 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2781 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2782 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2786 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2789 through loop. Closes: #98598
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2793 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Missing semi-colon.
2796 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2797 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2801 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2804 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2805 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2806 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2810 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2813 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2814 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2818 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2821 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2825 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2828 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2829 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2833 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2836 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2837 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2838 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2842 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2845 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2846 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2847 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2851 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2854 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2858 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2864 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2870 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2876 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2882 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2885 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2889 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2892 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2893 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2894 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2895 followed. Closes: #85483
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2899 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2901 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2902 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2903 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2907 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2910 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2911 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2912 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2913 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2914 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2915 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2916 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2917 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2918 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2919 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2920 Closes: #88464, #77743
2921 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2922 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2923 us to deal with that gracefully.
2924 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2926 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2927 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2928 a while, Closes: #51225
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2932 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2938 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2941 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2945 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2949 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2954 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2957 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2958 don't make packlist files.
2959 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2960 debhelper coding standards.
2961 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2962 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2966 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2969 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2973 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2976 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2977 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2978 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2979 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2980 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2981 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2982 but is mildly deprecated.
2983 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2984 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2985 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2986 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2987 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2988 switching to statoverrides..
2989 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2990 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2991 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2992 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2993 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2994 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2996 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2997 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2998 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2999 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3000 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3001 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3002 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3003 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3004 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3006 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3007 variable names, pod man pages).
3008 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3009 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3010 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3011 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3012 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3013 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3014 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3018 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3024 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3031 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3034 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3038 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3040 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3041 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3042 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3046 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3048 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3049 they were previously ignored.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3053 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3055 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3056 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3060 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3062 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3063 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3064 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3068 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3070 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3074 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3076 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3077 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3081 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3083 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3084 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3085 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3086 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3087 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3088 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3089 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3090 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3091 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3092 it is an obsolete program.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3096 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3098 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3102 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3106 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3108 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3112 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3114 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3116 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3118 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3122 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3128 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * typo: Closes, #78567
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3134 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3140 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3146 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3149 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3150 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3151 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3152 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3153 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3157 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3160 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3165 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3168 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3169 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3170 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3171 backwards-compatability.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3175 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3178 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3179 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3180 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3181 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3182 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3183 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3185 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3186 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3187 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3189 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3191 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3192 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3193 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3194 should now be raised to severity important..
3195 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3196 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3200 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3203 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3208 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3214 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3220 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3226 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3233 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3236 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3237 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3238 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3239 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3243 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3249 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3252 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3253 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3254 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3255 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3256 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3257 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3262 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3265 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3269 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3275 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3278 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3283 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3286 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3287 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3288 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3289 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3293 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3297 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3300 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3303 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3304 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3307 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3309 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3310 the TODO entry about it.
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3314 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3321 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3324 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3325 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3329 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3332 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3333 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3334 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3335 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3339 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3345 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3347 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3352 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3355 (this appears to be logal).
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3359 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3362 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3363 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3364 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3365 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3369 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3375 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3378 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3379 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3380 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3381 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3385 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3391 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3394 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3398 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3405 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3408 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3409 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3410 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3415 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3422 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3428 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3431 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3432 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3433 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3434 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3435 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3436 notice until v2 is complete.
3437 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3438 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3439 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3440 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3441 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3442 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3444 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3445 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3446 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3447 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3451 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3453 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3457 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3464 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3467 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3471 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3481 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3482 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3483 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3484 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3489 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3492 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3493 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3494 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3499 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3502 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3503 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3507 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3510 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3514 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3517 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3521 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3528 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3531 depend on the build and install targets.
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3535 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3538 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3542 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3549 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3555 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3561 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3564 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3565 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3566 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3567 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3568 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3569 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3571 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3572 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3573 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3574 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3575 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3576 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3577 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3581 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3587 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3593 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3596 right place. Closes: #55065
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3600 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3607 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3610 * Copyright date updates.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3614 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3617 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3622 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3628 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3635 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3641 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3647 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3653 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3656 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3657 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3658 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3659 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3660 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3661 bits until all files have been registered.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3665 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_installmanpages:
3668 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3669 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3670 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3671 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3672 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3673 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3674 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3675 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3676 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3677 otherwise change the result at all.
3679 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3680 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3681 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3682 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3683 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3688 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3694 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3697 act on files that don't exist.
3698 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3699 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3700 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3702 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3703 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3704 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3705 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3715 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3721 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3724 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3731 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3733 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3734 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3735 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3742 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3743 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3744 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3745 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3746 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3747 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3748 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3750 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3752 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3756 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3763 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3769 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3778 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3782 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3788 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3797 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3798 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3799 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3800 I made some changes, though:
3801 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3802 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3803 that is a clear violation of policy.
3804 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3805 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3806 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3807 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3808 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3809 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3810 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3811 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3812 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3814 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3818 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3824 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3827 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3834 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3835 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3840 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3856 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3857 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3858 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3859 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3860 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3861 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3862 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3866 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3876 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3877 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3881 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3887 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3890 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3894 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3897 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3898 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3904 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3913 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3917 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3920 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3921 for the dependancies to be generated.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3925 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3928 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3932 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3935 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3936 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3937 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3942 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3945 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3946 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3950 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3965 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3975 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3978 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3979 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3980 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3981 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3982 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3983 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3984 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3985 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3986 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3987 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3988 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3989 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3996 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3997 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3999 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4000 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4001 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4002 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4003 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4004 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4006 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4007 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4011 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4013 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4014 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4018 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4025 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4028 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4033 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4036 for building debhelper.
4037 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4051 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4058 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4059 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4060 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4061 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4062 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4063 it's always available.
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4070 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4071 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4072 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4079 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4080 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4084 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4090 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4093 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4103 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4106 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4107 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4108 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4112 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4114 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4115 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4123 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4124 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4126 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4127 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4131 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4137 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4143 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4146 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4150 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4153 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4154 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4156 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4163 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4164 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4165 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4169 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4171 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4172 things if CDPATH is set.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4176 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4185 seems to make sense for the transition.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4191 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4192 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4197 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4199 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4200 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4201 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4208 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4215 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4216 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4217 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4218 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4222 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4228 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4231 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4232 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4233 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4234 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4235 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4236 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4237 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4238 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4239 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4240 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4245 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4247 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4248 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4249 * README: mention doc/v2
4250 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4251 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4255 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4257 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4258 be using this script RSN.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4262 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4265 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4266 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4267 more than 1 init script.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4271 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4274 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4278 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Changed perl version detection.
4281 * Changed call to find.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4285 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4288 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4290 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4295 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4297 * Really include dh_installpam.
4299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4301 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4303 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4304 * Wrote man page for same.
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4308 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4311 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4312 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4317 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4319 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4324 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4327 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4328 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4329 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4330 x bit was being set!
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4334 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4337 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4338 well. (Closes: 38900)
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4342 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4345 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4346 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4350 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4356 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4363 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4369 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4371 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4372 help from Julian Gilbey.
4373 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4374 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4375 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4376 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4377 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4378 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4379 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4384 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4390 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4397 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4403 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4405 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4409 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4412 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4416 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4419 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4423 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4426 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4430 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4436 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4438 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4439 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4443 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4449 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4455 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4458 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4459 may be deleted. (#35845)
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4463 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Various man page enhancements.
4466 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4471 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4473 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4474 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4475 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4479 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4482 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4483 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4484 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4486 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4487 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4492 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4498 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Another very minor typo fix.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4504 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Very minor typo fix.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4510 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4513 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4514 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4518 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4524 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4527 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4528 variables properly (#34850).
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4532 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4538 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4541 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4542 (automatically generated by build process).
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4546 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4548 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4552 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4555 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4556 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4558 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4562 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4565 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4569 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4571 * README: minor typo fix.
4573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4575 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4577 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4578 leave it at that. :-)
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4582 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4588 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4594 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4596 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4597 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4598 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4599 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4603 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4606 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4610 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4612 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4613 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4617 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4619 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4620 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4621 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4622 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4623 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4627 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4630 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4631 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4632 Craig Small for spotting this.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4636 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4639 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4640 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4644 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4646 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4650 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4653 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4657 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4659 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4660 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4661 working on the last version of debhelper.
4663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4665 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4667 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4668 being made. (#23255)
4670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4672 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4674 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4678 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4681 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4685 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4687 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4688 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4689 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4690 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4691 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4695 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4697 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4698 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4699 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4700 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4701 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4703 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4704 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4706 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4711 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4713 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4717 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4723 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4726 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4727 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4728 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4729 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4730 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4731 suidregister actually supports it.
4732 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4733 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4737 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4744 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4747 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4748 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4749 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4750 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4751 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4752 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4753 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4757 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4759 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4760 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4764 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4767 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4768 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4769 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4770 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4774 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4777 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4779 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4780 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4781 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4782 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4783 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4784 effect, either. (#30118)
4786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4788 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4790 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4794 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4797 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4798 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4802 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4808 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4811 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4812 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4813 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4814 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4818 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4820 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4821 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4822 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4826 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4832 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4834 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4835 packages, painlessly.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4845 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4847 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4851 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4853 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4857 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4859 * The perl conversion is complete.
4861 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4863 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4864 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4865 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4870 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4872 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4873 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4874 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4875 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4879 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4882 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4884 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4886 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4887 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4891 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4894 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4895 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4899 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4905 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4908 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4909 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4910 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4911 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4912 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4916 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4919 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4920 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4921 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4922 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4926 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4928 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4929 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4936 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4937 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4938 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4939 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4940 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4941 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4942 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4943 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4953 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4955 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4956 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4957 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4958 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4966 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4970 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4972 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4973 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4977 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4979 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4980 sections of shared libraries.
4981 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4982 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4983 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4984 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4985 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4986 things you don't want them to.
4987 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4988 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4992 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4994 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4995 shared libraries. (#26414)
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4999 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5001 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5002 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5003 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5004 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5008 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5010 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5012 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5014 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5015 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5016 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5017 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5018 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5022 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5024 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5025 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5029 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5031 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5032 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5033 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5038 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5040 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5041 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5045 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5047 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5048 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5049 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5050 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5051 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5052 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5054 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5055 remove debian/files properly.
5056 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5057 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5058 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5059 * Removed bogus menu file.
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5066 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5070 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5072 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5073 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5074 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5075 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5076 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5077 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5078 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5082 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5084 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5085 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5086 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5087 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5088 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5092 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5094 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5099 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5102 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5103 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5105 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5106 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5107 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5108 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5109 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5110 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5117 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5118 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5119 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5120 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5121 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5122 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5123 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5124 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5125 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5126 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5127 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5128 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5129 passed any switches.
5130 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5137 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5138 at all for a long while.
5139 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5140 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5141 large chunks in the process.
5142 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5143 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5144 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5149 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5152 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5154 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5159 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5162 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5163 that don't always have the same files in them.
5164 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5165 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5166 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5170 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5174 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5175 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5176 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5177 updating 27 man pages.
5178 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5179 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5180 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5181 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5182 programs act on. (#25247)
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5186 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5190 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5191 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5192 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5193 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5194 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5195 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5200 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5202 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5207 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5214 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5217 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5221 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5227 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5229 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5230 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5231 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5232 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5233 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5234 package by accident.
5235 * Is version 1.0 next?
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5239 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5242 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5243 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5247 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5249 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5250 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5251 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5252 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5253 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5254 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5256 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5261 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5263 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5264 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5265 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5269 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5271 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5272 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5276 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5279 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5280 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5285 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5287 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5291 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5293 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5294 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5295 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5300 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5306 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5308 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5309 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5310 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5311 past week. Thanks, guys!
5313 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5314 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5315 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5316 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5317 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5318 would do in the same situation.
5319 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5320 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5322 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5324 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5325 permissions changed.
5326 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5327 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5328 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5329 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5330 files are treated identically.
5331 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5332 * Minor man page fixes.
5333 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5334 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5335 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5339 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5341 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5342 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5343 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5344 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5345 use -X multiple times, too.
5346 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5347 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5351 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5353 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5354 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5355 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5359 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5362 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5366 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5369 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5370 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5371 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5372 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5373 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5374 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5375 shape if you're starting a new package.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5379 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5382 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5386 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5389 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5390 because of missing symlinks.
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5394 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5400 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5402 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5403 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5404 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5405 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5406 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5407 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5409 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5410 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5414 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5416 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5417 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5418 to be changed after the fact :-)
5419 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5423 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5425 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5426 no version string after the -V.
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5430 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5432 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5433 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5438 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5440 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5441 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5445 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5448 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5449 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5450 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5451 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5452 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5453 I always welcome corrections!
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5457 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5463 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5465 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5466 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5467 * Documented this new switch.
5469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5471 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5473 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5474 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5475 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5476 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5477 no packages use the old behavior.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5481 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5484 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5485 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5489 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5492 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5496 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5498 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5502 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5504 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5505 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5509 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5511 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5512 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5513 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5514 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5518 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5524 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5527 into the source package by accident.
5529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5531 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5533 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5534 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5535 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5536 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5537 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5538 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5539 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5544 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5546 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5548 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5549 inspired to implement some of it.
5550 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5554 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5556 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5557 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5561 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5563 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5564 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5565 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5569 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5571 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5572 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5573 have done.) (#17598)
5575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5577 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5579 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5583 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5585 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5589 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5591 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5592 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5596 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5599 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5600 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5604 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5607 argument processor in perl.
5608 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5609 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5610 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5611 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5615 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5617 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5618 type directories. (#16933)
5619 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5620 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5621 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5622 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5623 are supported. (#16935)
5624 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5629 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5631 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5632 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5636 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5638 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5640 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5641 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5642 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5643 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5644 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5645 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5649 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5651 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5652 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5653 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5655 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5656 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5657 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5658 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5659 a given package, or -i or -a.
5660 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5661 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5662 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5663 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5664 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5665 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5666 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5667 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5668 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5670 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5671 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5672 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5676 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5678 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5679 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5680 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5685 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5688 does not have a section.
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5692 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5695 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5696 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5697 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5701 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5703 * Fixed typo #16215.
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5707 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5710 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5711 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5712 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5713 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5714 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5719 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5722 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5723 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5724 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5729 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5731 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5735 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5737 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5741 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5744 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5745 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5746 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5747 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5748 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5749 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5753 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5759 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5761 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5762 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5766 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5768 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5769 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5770 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5771 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5775 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5778 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5782 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5788 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5790 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5791 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5795 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5797 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5798 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5802 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5804 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5808 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5810 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5811 postinst, postrm, etc.
5813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5815 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5817 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5821 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5823 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5824 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5825 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5826 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5827 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5828 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5832 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5835 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5836 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5840 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5843 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5847 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5850 installing package files into.
5851 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5860 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5864 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5870 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5873 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5877 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5880 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5881 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5882 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5883 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5887 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5889 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5890 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5891 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5892 multiple binary packages.
5893 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5894 should rebuild them with this version.
5895 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5899 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5901 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5902 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5906 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5908 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5909 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5913 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5915 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5916 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5917 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5918 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5919 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5920 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5921 debian/README.debian.
5922 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5923 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5924 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5925 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5926 in a few situations.)
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5930 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5936 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5942 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5944 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5945 * Fixed several man pages.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5949 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5952 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5953 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5957 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5960 is ready for general use.
5961 * Added man pages for all commands.
5962 * Multiple binary package support.
5963 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5964 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5965 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5967 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5968 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5969 auto-installed as parameters.
5970 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5972 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5975 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5976 the package build directory it is to act on.
5977 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5978 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5979 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5983 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5985 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5986 ready to replace debstd.
5988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400