1 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
3 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
4 contributed by Modestas Vainius
5 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
6 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
7 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
8 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
9 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
10 that support it. Closes: #480577
11 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
12 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
13 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
15 - Adds support for cmake.
16 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
17 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
19 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
21 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
22 that use them. The options are:
23 --sourcedir, --destdir
24 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
25 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
26 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
27 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
28 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
32 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
35 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
37 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
38 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
39 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
43 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
45 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
46 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
47 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
48 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
52 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
55 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
56 warning or deprecation message.
57 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
58 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
59 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
60 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
61 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
62 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
63 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
64 Closes: #534639, #357434
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
68 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
74 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
77 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
78 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
79 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
80 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
82 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
83 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
84 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
88 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
90 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
94 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
101 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
104 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
108 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
112 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
113 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
115 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
116 file support. Closes: #494914
117 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
121 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
124 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
125 parameters. Closes: #527256
126 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
127 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
128 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
132 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
136 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
137 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
138 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
142 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
145 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
146 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
147 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
151 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
154 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
155 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
157 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
158 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
159 by triggers). Closes: #521181
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
163 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
167 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
171 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
174 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
175 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
176 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
177 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
182 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
184 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
188 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
191 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
192 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
193 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
194 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
195 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
197 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
198 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
199 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
200 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
201 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
202 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
206 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
209 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
210 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
211 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
212 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
213 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
215 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
219 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
221 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
225 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
227 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
228 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
229 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
230 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
231 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
232 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
233 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
234 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
235 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
236 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
237 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
241 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
243 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
244 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
246 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
247 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
248 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
249 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
251 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
252 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
256 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
258 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
259 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
260 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
261 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
262 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
263 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
264 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
266 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
267 that uses them. Affected options are:
268 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
269 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
270 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
271 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
272 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
273 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
274 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
275 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
276 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
277 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
278 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
279 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
283 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
285 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
290 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
296 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
298 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
299 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
301 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
302 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
303 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
304 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
305 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
307 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
309 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
310 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
311 rules (see bug #509756).
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
315 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
321 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
322 * Typo. Closes: #493062
323 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
324 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
328 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
331 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
332 empty files. Closes: #490937
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
336 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
342 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
349 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
352 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
353 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
354 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
355 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
360 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
362 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
363 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
364 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
365 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
369 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
372 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
373 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
374 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
375 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
376 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
380 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
387 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
389 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
390 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
391 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
392 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
393 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
394 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
395 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
396 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
397 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
398 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
402 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
405 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
406 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
407 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
408 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
410 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
411 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
412 breaking backwards compatability.
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
416 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
419 message in perl 5.10.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
423 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
429 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Convert copyright file to new format.
432 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
436 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
439 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
443 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
446 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
447 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
448 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
449 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
450 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
451 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
452 logging by dh_listpackages.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
456 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
459 run and there are no packages of that type.
460 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
461 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
462 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
463 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
465 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
466 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
470 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
473 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
474 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
478 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
481 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
482 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
484 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
485 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
486 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
487 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
488 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
489 planned but not yet implemented.)
490 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
491 if the Makefile has such a target.
492 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
493 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
494 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
495 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
496 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
497 but not yet implemented.)
498 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
499 recommended default, especially when using dh.
500 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
501 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
502 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
504 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
506 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
507 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
509 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
510 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
511 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
516 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
519 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
520 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
524 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
526 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
527 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
528 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
532 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
538 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
540 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
544 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
546 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
547 just those installed by the program.
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
551 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
554 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
555 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
559 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
562 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
563 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
564 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
565 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
569 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
572 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
573 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
577 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
580 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
581 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
585 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
588 with policy. Closes: #461392
589 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
590 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
591 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
592 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
593 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
597 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
600 Closes: #460340, #460351
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
604 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
606 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
607 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
608 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
609 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
610 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
614 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
617 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
618 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
619 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
620 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
621 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
622 package build directory won't work.
623 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
624 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
625 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
626 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
627 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
628 mode. Closes: #459426
629 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
634 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
636 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
637 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
641 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
645 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
646 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
647 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
648 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
649 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
650 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
654 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
657 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
658 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
659 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
660 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
664 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
667 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
668 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
669 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
670 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
671 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
678 debian/package.triggers files.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
682 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
685 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
689 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
692 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
693 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
694 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
695 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
700 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
703 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
707 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
710 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
711 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
713 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
718 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
722 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
723 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
724 * Typo. Closes: #441272
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
728 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
735 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
742 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
745 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
747 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
748 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
749 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
751 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
752 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
753 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
757 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
760 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
761 * Update urls to web page.
762 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
764 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
765 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
769 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
772 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
773 - typo in alternatives call
774 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
776 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
777 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
781 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
784 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
789 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
795 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
801 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
804 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
806 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
807 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
808 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
809 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
810 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
811 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
812 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
813 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
814 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
815 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
816 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
820 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
822 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
823 package install. Closes: #415717
824 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
825 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
826 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
827 script and then remove the python files.
828 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
829 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
830 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
831 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
832 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
833 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
834 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
835 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
836 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
837 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
838 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
839 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
840 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
844 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Correct typo in french translation
850 * Typo. Closes: #400571
851 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
853 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
855 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
856 Closes: #406921, #381940
857 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
859 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
860 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
861 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
862 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
863 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
864 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
865 specified). Closes: #381851
866 * Misc minor changes.
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
870 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
877 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
878 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
882 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
888 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
889 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
892 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
893 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
895 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
896 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
897 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
898 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
902 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
905 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
908 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
912 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
918 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
924 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
925 a difficult situation.
926 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
927 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
928 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
929 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
930 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
931 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
932 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
933 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
934 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
935 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Non-maintainer upload.
942 * Update of dh_python
943 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
944 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
946 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
947 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
948 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
949 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
950 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
952 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
954 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Non-maintainer upload.
957 * Update of dh_python
958 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
959 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
960 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
961 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
962 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
963 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
964 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
965 specific python version. Closes: #373853
966 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
967 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
969 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
970 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
971 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
972 the not too-distant future).
973 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
974 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
975 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
976 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
977 thus made the build fail.
979 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
981 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Non-maintainer upload.
984 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
986 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
988 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
991 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
992 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
993 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
994 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
995 package. Closes: #301424
996 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
997 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
998 fonts). Closes: #372686
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1002 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1008 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1009 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1010 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1011 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1012 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1013 above, but already depends on that.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1017 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1020 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1021 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1022 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1023 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1024 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1028 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1034 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1040 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1041 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1045 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1048 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1052 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1056 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1057 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1058 new version (0.24.1).
1059 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1060 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1063 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1064 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1065 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1066 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1067 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1068 new directory on their own.
1069 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1070 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1074 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1077 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1078 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1079 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1080 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1084 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1087 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1088 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1089 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1090 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1091 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1095 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1101 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1105 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1106 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1110 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1111 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1115 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1117 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1118 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1120 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1121 ignored. Closes: #337664
1123 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1128 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1134 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1139 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1140 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1141 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1142 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1143 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1144 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1145 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1149 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1152 version. Closes: #350607
1153 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1154 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1155 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1156 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1160 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1163 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1164 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1165 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1169 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1176 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1182 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1185 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1189 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1192 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1193 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1194 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1195 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1196 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1197 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1201 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1204 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1205 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1210 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1213 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1217 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1220 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1224 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1227 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1228 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1229 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1230 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1231 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1232 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1236 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1240 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1241 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1242 link. Closes: #346405
1243 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1245 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1246 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1247 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1248 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1249 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1250 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1251 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1255 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1262 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1268 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1271 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1275 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1278 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1283 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1287 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1288 installed. Closes: #342033
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1292 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1295 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1296 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1297 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1302 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1308 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1314 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1318 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1319 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1320 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1324 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1327 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1332 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1339 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1345 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1348 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1349 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1350 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1351 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1352 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1353 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1354 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1356 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1360 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1363 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1364 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1371 in standard man dirs.
1372 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1382 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1385 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1390 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1397 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1404 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1407 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1408 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1412 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1415 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1416 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1417 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1419 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1421 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1433 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1436 mode. Closes: #324161
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1440 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1443 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1444 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1445 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1446 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1451 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1454 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1455 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1456 is necesary for sanity.
1457 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1458 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1465 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1466 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1470 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1473 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1477 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1483 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1486 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1487 released, so use at your own risk.
1488 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1489 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1491 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1492 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1493 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1494 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1495 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1496 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1497 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1498 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1499 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1500 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1501 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1502 including twice per config file line now..
1503 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1504 and simplfy the rules file.
1505 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1506 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1507 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1509 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1510 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1517 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1524 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1528 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1531 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1535 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1538 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1539 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1540 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1541 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1542 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1543 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1547 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1550 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1551 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1552 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1557 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1560 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1561 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1566 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1569 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1570 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1571 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1576 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1579 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1580 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1581 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1585 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1591 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1598 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1601 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1602 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1603 unknown. Closes: #282924
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1607 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1614 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Spanish man page updates.
1617 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1622 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1628 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1631 * dh_desktop: reindent
1632 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1633 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1637 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1643 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1645 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1649 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1651 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1655 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1658 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1659 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1663 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1669 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1685 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1689 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1692 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1693 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1694 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1695 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1696 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1697 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1699 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1700 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1701 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1702 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1703 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1704 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1705 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1706 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1707 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1708 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1709 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1710 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1711 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1712 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1713 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1714 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1718 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1728 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1732 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1735 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1742 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1746 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1749 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1753 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1759 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1765 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1771 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1774 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1775 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1776 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1783 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1787 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1790 but occasionally right and necessary.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1794 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1797 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1798 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1799 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1800 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1801 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1805 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1808 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1810 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1811 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1812 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1813 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1814 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1815 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1816 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1817 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1818 postinst scripts for udebs.
1819 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1823 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1826 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1828 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1829 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1833 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1839 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1846 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1856 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1863 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1867 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1870 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1873 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1874 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1878 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1884 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1887 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1894 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1895 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1896 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1898 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1900 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1901 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1902 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1906 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1909 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1914 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1917 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1918 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1919 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1930 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1936 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1939 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1940 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1941 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1942 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1943 associated -dbg packages.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1950 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1957 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1961 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1964 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1968 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1971 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1976 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1979 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1983 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1986 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1991 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1994 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1998 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2002 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2003 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2004 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2005 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2006 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2007 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2008 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2009 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2010 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2011 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2015 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2018 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2026 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2027 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2031 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2034 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2035 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2043 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2050 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2057 out section number. Closes: #204731
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2061 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2068 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2083 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2084 removal. Closes: #204286
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2088 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2091 renaming. Closes: #203548
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2098 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2099 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2103 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2115 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2121 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2124 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2125 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2126 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2133 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2134 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2138 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2144 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2151 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2154 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2162 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2169 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2171 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2172 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2176 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2179 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2187 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2197 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2199 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2206 it break hard links (see #188663).
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2210 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2213 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2217 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2227 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2228 debconf-mergetemplates
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2232 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2235 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2242 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2246 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2249 * Update debhelper(1).
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2253 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2256 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2257 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2258 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2259 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2260 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2264 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2267 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2268 the shell. Closes: #178524
2269 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2276 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2280 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2283 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2287 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2290 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2291 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2292 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2293 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2301 files from installation.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2305 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2308 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2309 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2316 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2320 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2323 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2327 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2333 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2339 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2343 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2344 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2346 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2350 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2353 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2354 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2355 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2356 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2360 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2363 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2370 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2371 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2375 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2379 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2384 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2390 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2394 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2395 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2396 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2404 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2405 practice. Closes: #163303
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2409 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2425 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2427 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2428 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2429 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2430 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2431 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2438 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2449 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2459 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2470 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2476 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2482 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2489 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2492 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2493 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2494 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2495 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2500 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2506 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2513 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2516 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2517 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2521 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2524 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2525 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2526 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2527 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2528 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2532 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2535 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2537 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2542 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2545 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2549 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2552 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2553 right thing. Closes: #150644
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Stupid, evil typo.
2560 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2564 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2571 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2574 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2575 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2580 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2586 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2589 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2596 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2597 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2602 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2605 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2618 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2619 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2623 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2629 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Removing perl warning message.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2638 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2639 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2640 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2641 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2642 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2643 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2644 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2645 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2649 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2655 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2662 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2665 debconf-mergetemplate.
2666 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2667 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2671 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2674 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2675 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2676 dh_install, which ...
2677 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2678 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2679 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2680 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2681 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2682 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2683 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2684 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2685 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2686 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2687 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2688 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2689 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2690 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2691 other minor changes.
2692 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2693 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2694 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2695 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2696 course there's -X ..)
2697 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2698 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2699 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2701 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2702 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2703 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2704 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2705 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2710 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2716 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2719 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2723 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2729 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2735 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2741 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2747 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2750 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2751 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2752 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2753 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2755 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2756 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2760 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2766 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2769 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2773 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2776 upset. Closes: #131322
2778 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2780 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2783 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2784 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2785 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2786 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2787 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2788 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2789 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2790 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2791 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2792 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2793 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2794 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2795 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2796 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2797 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2799 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2803 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2806 - Better indenting of generated code.
2807 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2811 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2815 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2816 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2817 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2818 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2819 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2820 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2821 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2825 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2828 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2832 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2835 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2836 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2837 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2838 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2839 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2840 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2841 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2842 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2843 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2844 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2845 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2846 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2847 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2848 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2849 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2854 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2860 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2863 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2864 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2868 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2871 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2872 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2876 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2882 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2885 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2886 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2887 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2888 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2889 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2894 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2900 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2903 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2910 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2915 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2921 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2924 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2934 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2938 Also some indentation fixes.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2942 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2945 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2946 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2947 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2948 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2949 Closes: #106514, #85520
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2953 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2959 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2965 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2971 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2977 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2983 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2986 change it in debhelper v4..
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2990 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2996 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2999 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3003 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3006 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3010 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3016 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3019 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3020 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3021 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3022 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3023 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3024 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3025 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3026 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3027 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3028 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3029 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3030 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3034 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3037 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3041 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3048 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3051 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3052 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3053 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3054 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3055 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3056 program those options go to. So, for example,
3057 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3058 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3059 something complex. Closes: #89311
3060 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3064 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3067 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3068 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3069 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3073 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3076 through loop. Closes: #98598
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3080 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Missing semi-colon.
3083 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3084 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3088 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3091 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3092 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3093 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3097 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3100 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3101 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3105 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3108 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3115 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3116 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3120 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3123 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3124 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3125 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3129 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3132 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3133 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3134 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3138 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3141 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3145 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3151 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3157 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3163 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3165 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3169 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3172 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3176 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3179 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3180 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3181 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3182 followed. Closes: #85483
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3186 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3188 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3189 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3190 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3194 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3197 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3198 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3199 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3200 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3201 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3202 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3203 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3204 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3205 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3206 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3207 Closes: #88464, #77743
3208 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3209 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3210 us to deal with that gracefully.
3211 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3213 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3214 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3215 a while, Closes: #51225
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3219 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3225 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3228 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3232 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3236 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3241 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3244 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3245 don't make packlist files.
3246 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3247 debhelper coding standards.
3248 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3249 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3253 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3256 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3260 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3263 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3264 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3265 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3266 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3267 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3268 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3269 but is mildly deprecated.
3270 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3271 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3272 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3273 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3274 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3275 switching to statoverrides..
3276 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3277 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3278 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3279 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3280 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3281 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3283 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3284 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3285 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3286 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3287 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3288 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3289 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3290 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3291 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3293 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3294 variable names, pod man pages).
3295 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3296 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3297 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3298 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3299 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3300 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3301 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3305 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3318 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3321 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3327 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3328 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3329 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3335 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3336 they were previously ignored.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3340 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3342 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3343 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3347 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3349 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3350 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3351 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3355 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3357 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3361 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3363 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3364 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3368 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3370 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3371 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3372 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3373 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3374 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3375 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3376 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3377 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3378 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3379 it is an obsolete program.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3383 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3385 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3389 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3393 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3399 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3401 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3403 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3405 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3409 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3415 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * typo: Closes, #78567
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3421 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3427 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3433 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3436 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3437 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3438 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3439 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3440 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3444 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3446 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3447 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3452 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3455 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3456 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3457 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3458 backwards-compatability.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3465 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3466 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3467 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3468 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3469 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3470 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3472 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3473 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3474 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3476 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3478 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3479 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3480 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3481 should now be raised to severity important..
3482 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3483 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3487 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3490 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3495 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3501 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3507 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3513 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3520 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3523 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3524 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3525 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3526 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3536 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3539 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3540 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3541 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3542 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3543 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3544 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3549 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3552 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3556 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3562 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3565 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3570 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3573 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3574 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3575 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3576 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3580 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3584 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3587 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3590 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3591 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3594 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3596 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3597 the TODO entry about it.
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3601 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3608 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3611 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3612 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3619 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3620 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3621 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3622 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3626 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3639 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3642 (this appears to be logal).
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3646 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3649 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3650 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3651 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3652 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3656 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3658 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3662 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3665 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3666 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3667 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3668 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3672 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3681 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3692 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3695 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3696 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3697 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3702 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3709 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3715 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3718 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3719 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3720 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3721 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3722 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3723 notice until v2 is complete.
3724 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3725 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3726 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3727 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3728 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3729 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3731 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3732 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3733 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3734 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3738 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3754 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3758 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3765 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3768 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3769 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3770 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3771 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3776 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3779 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3780 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3781 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3786 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3789 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3790 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3797 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3804 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3818 depend on the build and install targets.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3825 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3842 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3848 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3851 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3852 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3853 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3854 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3855 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3856 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3858 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3859 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3860 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3861 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3862 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3863 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3864 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3868 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3874 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3883 right place. Closes: #55065
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3894 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3897 * Copyright date updates.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3904 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3909 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3915 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3922 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3928 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3934 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3936 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3943 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3944 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3945 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3946 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3947 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3948 bits until all files have been registered.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3952 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_installmanpages:
3955 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3956 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3957 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3958 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3959 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3960 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3961 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3962 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3963 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3964 otherwise change the result at all.
3966 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3967 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3968 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3969 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3970 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3975 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3981 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3984 act on files that don't exist.
3985 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3986 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3987 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3989 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3990 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3991 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3992 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3996 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4002 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4008 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4011 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4015 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4018 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4020 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4021 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4022 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4026 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4029 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4030 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4031 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4032 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4033 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4034 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4035 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4037 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4039 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4043 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4050 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4065 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4075 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4081 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4084 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4085 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4086 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4087 I made some changes, though:
4088 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4089 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4090 that is a clear violation of policy.
4091 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4092 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4093 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4094 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4095 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4096 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4097 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4098 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4099 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4101 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4105 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4111 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4114 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4118 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4121 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4122 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4127 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4133 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4140 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4143 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4144 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4145 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4146 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4147 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4148 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4149 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4153 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4159 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4163 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4164 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4168 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4170 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4174 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4177 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4181 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4183 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4184 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4185 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4189 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4191 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4196 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4200 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4204 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4206 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4207 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4208 for the dependancies to be generated.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4212 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4215 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4222 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4223 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4224 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4232 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4233 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4237 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4239 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4243 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4245 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4252 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4256 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4265 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4266 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4267 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4268 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4269 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4270 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4271 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4272 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4273 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4274 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4275 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4276 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4283 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4284 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4286 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4287 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4288 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4289 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4290 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4291 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4293 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4294 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4301 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4305 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4315 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4320 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4322 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4323 for building debhelper.
4324 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4335 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4338 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4342 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4344 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4345 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4346 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4347 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4348 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4349 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4350 it's always available.
4352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4354 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4356 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4357 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4358 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4359 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4366 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4367 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4371 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4377 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4380 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4384 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4386 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4390 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4392 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4393 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4394 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4395 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4399 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4402 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4407 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4410 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4411 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4413 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4414 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4418 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4430 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4433 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4440 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4441 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4443 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4447 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4450 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4451 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4452 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4459 things if CDPATH is set.
4461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4463 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4465 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4469 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4472 seems to make sense for the transition.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4476 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4479 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4484 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4486 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4487 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4488 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4492 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4495 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4499 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4502 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4503 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4504 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4505 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4509 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4511 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4518 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4519 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4520 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4521 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4522 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4523 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4524 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4525 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4526 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4527 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4532 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4535 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4536 * README: mention doc/v2
4537 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4538 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4542 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4544 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4545 be using this script RSN.
4547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4549 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4551 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4552 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4553 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4554 more than 1 init script.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4561 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4565 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * Changed perl version detection.
4568 * Changed call to find.
4570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4572 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4574 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4575 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4577 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4582 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * Really include dh_installpam.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4588 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4591 * Wrote man page for same.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4595 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4598 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4599 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4604 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4611 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4613 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4614 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4615 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4616 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4617 x bit was being set!
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4621 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4624 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4625 well. (Closes: 38900)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4632 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4633 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4643 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4650 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4656 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4659 help from Julian Gilbey.
4660 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4661 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4662 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4663 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4664 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4665 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4666 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4671 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4673 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4677 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4679 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4684 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4690 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4696 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4699 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4706 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4710 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4712 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4713 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4717 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4719 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4726 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4730 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4745 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4746 may be deleted. (#35845)
4748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4750 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4752 * Various man page enhancements.
4753 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4758 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4760 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4761 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4762 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4766 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4768 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4769 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4770 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4771 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4773 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4774 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4779 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4781 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4785 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4787 * Another very minor typo fix.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Very minor typo fix.
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4800 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4801 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4814 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4815 variables properly (#34850).
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4819 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4828 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4829 (automatically generated by build process).
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4833 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4835 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4839 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4841 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4842 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4843 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4845 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4849 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4852 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4856 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * README: minor typo fix.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4862 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4865 leave it at that. :-)
4867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4869 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4871 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4875 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4877 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4881 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4884 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4885 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4886 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4893 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4897 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4899 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4900 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4904 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4906 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4907 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4908 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4909 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4910 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4914 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4916 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4917 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4918 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4919 Craig Small for spotting this.
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4926 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4927 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4931 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4933 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4937 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4939 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4940 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4944 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4946 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4947 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4948 working on the last version of debhelper.
4950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4952 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4954 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4955 being made. (#23255)
4957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4959 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4961 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4965 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4967 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4968 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4972 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4975 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4976 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4977 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4978 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4982 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4984 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4985 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4986 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4987 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4988 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4990 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4991 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4993 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4998 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5000 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5004 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5006 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5013 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5014 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5015 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5016 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5017 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5018 suidregister actually supports it.
5019 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5020 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5024 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5031 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5033 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5034 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5035 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5036 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5037 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5038 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5039 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5040 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5044 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5046 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5047 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5051 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5053 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5054 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5055 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5056 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5057 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5064 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5066 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5067 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5068 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5069 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5070 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5071 effect, either. (#30118)
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5075 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5084 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5085 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5098 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5099 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5100 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5101 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5105 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5108 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5109 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5113 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5115 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5122 packages, painlessly.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5126 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5132 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5134 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5138 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5140 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5144 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5146 * The perl conversion is complete.
5148 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5150 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5151 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5152 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5160 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5161 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5162 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5166 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5168 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5169 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5171 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5173 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5174 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5181 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5182 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5186 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5188 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5192 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5194 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5195 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5196 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5197 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5198 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5199 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5206 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5207 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5208 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5209 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5213 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5215 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5216 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5223 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5224 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5225 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5226 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5227 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5228 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5229 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5230 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5234 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5236 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5240 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5243 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5244 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5245 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5253 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5257 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5260 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5264 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5267 sections of shared libraries.
5268 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5269 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5270 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5271 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5272 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5273 things you don't want them to.
5274 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5275 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5279 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5281 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5282 shared libraries. (#26414)
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5286 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5288 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5289 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5290 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5291 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5299 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5301 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5302 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5303 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5304 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5305 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5309 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5312 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5316 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5318 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5319 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5320 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5325 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5327 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5328 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5332 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5334 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5335 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5336 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5337 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5338 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5339 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5341 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5342 remove debian/files properly.
5343 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5344 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5345 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5346 * Removed bogus menu file.
5348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5350 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5352 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5353 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5357 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5360 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5361 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5362 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5363 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5364 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5365 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5369 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5371 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5372 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5373 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5374 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5375 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5379 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5386 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5388 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5389 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5390 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5392 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5393 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5394 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5395 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5396 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5397 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5404 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5405 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5406 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5407 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5408 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5409 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5410 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5411 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5412 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5413 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5414 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5415 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5416 passed any switches.
5417 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5421 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5423 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5424 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5425 at all for a long while.
5426 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5427 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5428 large chunks in the process.
5429 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5430 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5431 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5436 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5438 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5439 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5441 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5446 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5448 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5449 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5450 that don't always have the same files in them.
5451 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5452 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5453 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5457 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5459 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5461 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5462 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5463 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5464 updating 27 man pages.
5465 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5466 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5467 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5468 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5469 programs act on. (#25247)
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5473 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5477 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5478 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5479 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5480 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5481 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5482 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5487 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5494 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5501 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5504 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5508 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5510 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5514 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5517 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5518 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5519 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5520 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5521 package by accident.
5522 * Is version 1.0 next?
5524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5526 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5528 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5529 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5530 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5534 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5537 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5538 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5539 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5540 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5541 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5543 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5548 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5551 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5552 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5556 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5558 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5559 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5563 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5566 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5567 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5572 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5574 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5578 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5580 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5581 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5582 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5587 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5593 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5596 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5597 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5598 past week. Thanks, guys!
5600 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5601 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5602 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5603 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5604 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5605 would do in the same situation.
5606 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5607 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5609 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5611 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5612 permissions changed.
5613 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5614 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5615 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5616 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5617 files are treated identically.
5618 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5619 * Minor man page fixes.
5620 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5621 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5622 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5626 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5629 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5630 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5631 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5632 use -X multiple times, too.
5633 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5634 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5638 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5641 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5642 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5646 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5648 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5649 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5653 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5656 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5657 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5658 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5659 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5660 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5661 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5662 shape if you're starting a new package.
5664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5666 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5668 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5669 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5673 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5676 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5677 because of missing symlinks.
5679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5681 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5683 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5687 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5689 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5690 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5691 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5692 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5693 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5694 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5696 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5697 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5701 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5703 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5704 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5705 to be changed after the fact :-)
5706 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5710 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5712 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5713 no version string after the -V.
5715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5717 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5719 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5720 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5725 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5727 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5728 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5732 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5734 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5735 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5736 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5737 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5738 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5739 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5740 I always welcome corrections!
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5744 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5750 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5752 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5753 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5754 * Documented this new switch.
5756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5758 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5760 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5761 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5762 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5763 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5764 no packages use the old behavior.
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5768 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5771 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5772 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5776 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5778 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5779 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5783 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5789 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5791 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5792 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5796 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5798 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5799 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5800 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5801 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5805 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5811 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5813 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5814 into the source package by accident.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5818 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5821 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5822 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5823 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5824 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5825 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5826 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5835 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5836 inspired to implement some of it.
5837 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5841 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5844 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5848 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5850 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5851 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5852 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5856 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5859 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5860 have done.) (#17598)
5862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5864 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5866 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5870 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5872 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5876 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5879 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5883 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5885 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5886 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5887 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5891 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5893 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5894 argument processor in perl.
5895 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5896 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5897 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5898 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5902 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5905 type directories. (#16933)
5906 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5907 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5908 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5909 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5910 are supported. (#16935)
5911 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5916 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5918 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5919 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5923 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5925 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5927 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5928 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5929 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5930 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5931 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5932 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5936 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5938 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5939 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5940 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5942 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5943 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5944 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5945 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5946 a given package, or -i or -a.
5947 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5948 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5949 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5950 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5951 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5952 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5953 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5954 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5955 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5957 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5958 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5959 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5963 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5966 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5967 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5972 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5974 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5975 does not have a section.
5977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5979 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5981 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5982 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5983 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5984 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5988 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Fixed typo #16215.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5994 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5997 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5998 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5999 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6000 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6001 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6006 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6008 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6009 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6010 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6011 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6016 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6022 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6028 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6031 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6032 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6033 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6034 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6035 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6036 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6040 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6042 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6046 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6049 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6053 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6056 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6057 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6058 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6062 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6064 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6065 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6069 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6075 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6078 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6082 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6084 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6085 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6089 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6095 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6098 postinst, postrm, etc.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6102 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6108 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6110 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6111 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6112 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6113 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6114 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6115 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6119 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6121 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6122 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6123 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6127 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6129 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6130 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6134 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6137 installing package files into.
6138 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6143 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6147 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6151 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6153 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6157 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6159 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6160 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6164 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6166 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6167 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6168 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6169 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6170 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6174 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6176 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6177 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6178 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6179 multiple binary packages.
6180 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6181 should rebuild them with this version.
6182 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6186 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6189 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6193 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6196 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6200 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6203 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6204 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6205 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6206 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6207 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6208 debian/README.debian.
6209 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6210 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6211 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6212 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6213 in a few situations.)
6215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6217 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6219 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6223 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6225 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6229 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6231 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6232 * Fixed several man pages.
6234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6236 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6238 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6239 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6240 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6244 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6246 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6247 is ready for general use.
6248 * Added man pages for all commands.
6249 * Multiple binary package support.
6250 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6251 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6252 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6254 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6255 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6256 auto-installed as parameters.
6257 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6259 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6262 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6263 the package build directory it is to act on.
6264 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6265 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6266 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6270 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6272 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6273 ready to replace debstd.
6275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400