1 debhelper (7.3.0) UNRELEASED; 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().
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:26:08 -0400
29 debhelper (7.2.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
31 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
32 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
33 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
34 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:59:11 -0400
38 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
41 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
42 warning or deprecation message.
43 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
44 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
45 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
46 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
47 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
48 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
49 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
50 Closes: #528864, #357434
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
54 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
60 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
63 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
64 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
65 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
66 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
68 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
69 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
70 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
74 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
80 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
87 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
90 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
94 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
98 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
99 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
101 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
102 file support. Closes: #494914
103 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
107 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
110 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
111 parameters. Closes: #527256
112 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
113 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
114 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
118 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
122 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
123 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
124 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
128 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
131 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
132 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
133 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
137 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
140 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
141 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
143 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
144 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
145 by triggers). Closes: #521181
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
149 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
153 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
157 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
160 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
161 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
162 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
163 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
168 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
174 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
177 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
178 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
179 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
180 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
181 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
183 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
184 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
185 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
186 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
187 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
188 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
192 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
195 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
196 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
197 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
198 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
199 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
201 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
205 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
207 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
211 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
213 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
214 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
215 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
216 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
217 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
218 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
219 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
220 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
221 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
222 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
223 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
227 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
229 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
230 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
232 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
233 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
234 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
235 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
237 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
238 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
242 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
244 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
245 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
246 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
247 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
248 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
249 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
250 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
252 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
253 that uses them. Affected options are:
254 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
255 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
256 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
257 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
258 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
259 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
260 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
261 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
262 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
263 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
264 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
265 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
269 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
276 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
282 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
284 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
285 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
287 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
288 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
289 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
290 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
291 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
293 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
295 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
296 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
297 rules (see bug #509756).
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
301 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
307 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
308 * Typo. Closes: #493062
309 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
310 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
314 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
317 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
318 empty files. Closes: #490937
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
322 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
328 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
335 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
338 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
339 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
340 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
341 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
346 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
348 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
349 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
350 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
351 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
355 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
358 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
359 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
360 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
361 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
362 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
366 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
368 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
373 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
375 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
376 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
377 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
378 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
379 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
380 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
381 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
382 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
383 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
384 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
388 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
391 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
392 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
393 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
394 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
396 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
397 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
398 breaking backwards compatability.
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
402 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
404 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
405 message in perl 5.10.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
409 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
415 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Convert copyright file to new format.
418 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
422 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
425 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
429 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
432 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
433 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
434 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
435 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
436 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
437 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
438 logging by dh_listpackages.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
442 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
445 run and there are no packages of that type.
446 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
447 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
448 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
449 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
451 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
452 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
456 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
458 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
459 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
460 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
464 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
466 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
467 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
468 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
470 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
471 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
472 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
473 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
474 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
475 planned but not yet implemented.)
476 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
477 if the Makefile has such a target.
478 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
479 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
480 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
481 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
482 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
483 but not yet implemented.)
484 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
485 recommended default, especially when using dh.
486 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
487 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
488 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
490 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
492 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
493 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
495 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
496 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
497 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
502 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
505 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
506 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
510 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
512 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
513 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
514 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
518 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
524 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
530 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
533 just those installed by the program.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
537 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
539 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
540 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
541 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
545 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
548 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
549 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
550 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
551 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
555 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
558 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
559 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
563 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
565 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
566 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
567 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
571 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
574 with policy. Closes: #461392
575 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
576 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
577 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
578 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
579 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
583 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
586 Closes: #460340, #460351
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
590 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
593 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
594 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
595 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
596 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
600 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
603 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
604 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
605 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
606 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
607 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
608 package build directory won't work.
609 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
610 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
611 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
612 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
613 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
614 mode. Closes: #459426
615 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
620 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
623 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
627 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
631 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
632 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
633 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
634 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
635 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
636 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
640 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
643 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
644 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
645 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
646 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
650 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
653 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
654 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
655 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
656 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
657 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
661 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
664 debian/package.triggers files.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
668 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
671 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
675 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
678 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
679 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
680 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
681 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
686 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
689 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
693 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
695 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
696 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
697 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
699 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
704 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
708 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
709 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
710 * Typo. Closes: #441272
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
714 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
721 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
728 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
731 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
733 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
734 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
735 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
737 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
738 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
739 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
743 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
746 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
747 * Update urls to web page.
748 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
750 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
751 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
755 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
758 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
759 - typo in alternatives call
760 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
762 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
763 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
767 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
770 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
775 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
781 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
787 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
789 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
790 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
792 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
793 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
794 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
795 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
796 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
797 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
798 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
799 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
800 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
801 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
802 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
806 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
809 package install. Closes: #415717
810 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
811 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
812 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
813 script and then remove the python files.
814 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
815 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
816 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
817 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
818 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
819 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
820 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
821 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
822 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
823 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
824 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
825 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
826 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
830 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Correct typo in french translation
836 * Typo. Closes: #400571
837 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
839 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
841 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
842 Closes: #406921, #381940
843 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
845 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
846 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
847 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
848 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
849 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
850 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
851 specified). Closes: #381851
852 * Misc minor changes.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
856 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
863 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
864 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
868 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
874 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
875 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
878 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
879 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
881 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
882 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
883 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
884 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
888 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
891 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
894 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
898 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
904 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
907 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
910 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
911 a difficult situation.
912 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
913 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
914 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
915 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
916 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
917 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
918 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
919 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
920 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
921 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
925 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Non-maintainer upload.
928 * Update of dh_python
929 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
930 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
932 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
933 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
934 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
935 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
936 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
938 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
940 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Non-maintainer upload.
943 * Update of dh_python
944 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
945 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
946 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
947 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
948 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
949 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
950 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
951 specific python version. Closes: #373853
952 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
953 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
955 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
956 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
957 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
958 the not too-distant future).
959 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
960 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
961 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
962 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
963 thus made the build fail.
965 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
967 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Non-maintainer upload.
970 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
972 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
974 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
977 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
978 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
979 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
980 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
981 package. Closes: #301424
982 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
983 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
984 fonts). Closes: #372686
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
988 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
994 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
995 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
996 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
997 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
998 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
999 above, but already depends on that.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1003 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1006 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1007 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1008 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1009 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1010 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1014 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1020 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1026 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1027 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1031 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1034 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1038 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1042 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1043 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1044 new version (0.24.1).
1045 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1046 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1049 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1050 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1051 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1052 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1053 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1054 new directory on their own.
1055 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1056 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1060 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1063 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1064 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1065 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1066 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1070 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1073 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1074 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1075 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1076 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1077 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1081 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1087 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1091 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1092 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1096 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1097 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1101 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1103 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1104 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1106 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1107 ignored. Closes: #337664
1109 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1114 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1120 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1125 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1126 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1127 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1128 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1129 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1130 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1131 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1135 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1138 version. Closes: #350607
1139 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1140 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1141 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1142 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1146 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1149 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1150 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1151 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1155 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1162 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1168 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1171 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1175 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1178 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1179 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1180 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1181 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1182 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1183 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1187 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1190 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1191 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1196 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1199 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1203 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1206 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1210 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1213 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1214 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1215 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1216 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1217 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1218 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1222 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1226 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1227 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1228 link. Closes: #346405
1229 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1231 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1232 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1233 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1234 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1235 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1236 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1237 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1241 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1248 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1254 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1257 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1261 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1264 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1269 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1273 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1274 installed. Closes: #342033
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1281 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1282 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1283 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1288 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1294 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1300 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1304 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1305 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1306 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1310 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1313 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1318 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1325 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1331 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1334 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1335 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1336 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1337 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1338 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1339 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1340 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1342 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1346 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1349 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1350 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1354 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1357 in standard man dirs.
1358 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1362 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1368 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1371 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1376 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1383 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1390 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1393 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1394 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1398 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1401 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1402 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1403 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1405 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1407 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1413 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1419 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1422 mode. Closes: #324161
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1426 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1429 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1430 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1431 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1432 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1437 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1440 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1441 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1442 is necesary for sanity.
1443 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1444 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1449 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1451 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1452 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1456 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1459 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1463 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1469 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1472 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1473 released, so use at your own risk.
1474 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1475 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1477 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1478 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1479 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1480 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1481 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1482 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1483 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1484 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1485 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1486 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1487 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1488 including twice per config file line now..
1489 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1490 and simplfy the rules file.
1491 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1492 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1493 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1495 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1496 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1500 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1503 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1507 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1510 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1514 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1517 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1521 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1524 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1525 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1526 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1527 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1528 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1529 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1533 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1536 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1537 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1538 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1543 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1546 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1547 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1552 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1555 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1556 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1557 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1562 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1565 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1566 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1567 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1571 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1577 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1584 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1587 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1588 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1589 unknown. Closes: #282924
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1593 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1600 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Spanish man page updates.
1603 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1608 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1614 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1617 * dh_desktop: reindent
1618 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1619 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1623 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1629 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1631 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1635 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1637 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1641 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1644 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1645 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1649 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1655 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1661 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1671 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1678 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1679 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1680 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1681 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1682 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1683 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1685 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1686 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1687 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1688 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1689 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1690 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1691 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1692 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1693 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1694 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1695 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1696 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1697 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1698 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1699 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1700 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1704 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1714 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1718 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1721 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1725 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1728 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1732 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1735 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1739 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1745 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1751 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1757 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1760 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1761 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1762 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1766 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1769 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1773 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1776 but occasionally right and necessary.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1780 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1783 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1784 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1785 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1786 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1787 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1791 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1794 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1796 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1797 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1798 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1799 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1800 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1801 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1802 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1803 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1804 postinst scripts for udebs.
1805 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1809 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1812 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1814 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1815 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1825 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1832 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1839 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1842 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1846 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1849 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1853 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1856 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1859 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1860 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1864 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1870 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1873 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1877 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1880 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1881 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1882 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1884 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1886 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1887 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1888 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1892 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1895 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1900 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1903 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1904 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1905 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1910 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1916 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1925 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1926 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1927 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1928 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1929 associated -dbg packages.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1936 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1940 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1943 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1947 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1950 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1954 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1957 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1962 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1965 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1969 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1972 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1977 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1980 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1984 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1988 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1989 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1990 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1991 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1992 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1993 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1994 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1995 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1996 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1997 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2001 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2004 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2012 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2013 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2017 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2020 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2021 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2026 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2029 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2036 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2040 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2043 out section number. Closes: #204731
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2047 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2054 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2060 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2069 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2070 removal. Closes: #204286
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2074 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2077 renaming. Closes: #203548
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2081 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2084 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2085 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2089 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2095 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2101 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2107 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2110 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2111 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2112 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2116 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2119 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2120 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2124 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2140 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2145 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2148 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2155 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2157 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2158 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2162 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2165 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2170 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2173 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2177 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2183 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2185 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2189 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2192 it break hard links (see #188663).
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2199 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2209 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2213 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2214 debconf-mergetemplates
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2218 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2221 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2225 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2228 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2232 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2235 * Update debhelper(1).
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2239 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2242 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2243 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2244 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2245 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2246 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2250 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2253 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2254 the shell. Closes: #178524
2255 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2259 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2262 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2266 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2269 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2273 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2276 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2277 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2278 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2279 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2284 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2287 files from installation.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2291 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2294 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2295 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2299 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2302 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2306 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2309 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2313 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2319 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2325 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2329 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2330 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2332 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2336 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2339 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2340 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2341 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2342 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2346 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2349 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2353 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2356 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2357 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2361 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2365 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2370 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2376 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2380 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2381 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2382 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2390 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2391 practice. Closes: #163303
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2395 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2401 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2411 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2413 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2414 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2415 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2416 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2417 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2421 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2424 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2429 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2442 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2445 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2456 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2462 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2478 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2479 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2480 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2481 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2486 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2492 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2499 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2502 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2503 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2507 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2510 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2511 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2512 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2513 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2514 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2518 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2521 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2523 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2531 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2538 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2539 right thing. Closes: #150644
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * Stupid, evil typo.
2546 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2557 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2560 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2561 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2572 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2575 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2582 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2583 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2588 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2591 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2604 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2605 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2609 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2615 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * Removing perl warning message.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2621 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2624 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2625 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2626 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2627 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2628 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2629 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2630 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2631 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2635 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2641 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2651 debconf-mergetemplate.
2652 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2653 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2660 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2661 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2662 dh_install, which ...
2663 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2664 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2665 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2666 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2667 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2668 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2669 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2670 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2671 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2672 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2673 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2674 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2675 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2676 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2677 other minor changes.
2678 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2679 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2680 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2681 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2682 course there's -X ..)
2683 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2684 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2685 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2687 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2688 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2689 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2690 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2691 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2696 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2702 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2705 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2709 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2715 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2721 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2727 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2733 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2736 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2737 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2738 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2739 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2741 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2742 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2746 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2752 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2755 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2759 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2762 upset. Closes: #131322
2764 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2766 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2769 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2770 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2771 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2772 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2773 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2774 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2775 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2776 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2777 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2778 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2779 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2780 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2781 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2782 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2783 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2785 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2789 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2792 - Better indenting of generated code.
2793 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2797 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2801 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2802 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2803 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2804 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2805 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2806 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2807 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2811 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2814 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2818 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2821 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2822 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2823 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2824 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2825 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2826 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2827 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2828 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2829 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2830 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2831 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2832 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2833 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2834 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2835 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2840 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2846 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2849 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2850 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2854 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2857 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2858 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2862 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2868 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2871 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2872 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2873 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2874 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2875 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2880 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2886 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2889 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2893 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2896 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2901 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2907 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2910 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2914 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2920 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2924 Also some indentation fixes.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2928 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2931 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2932 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2933 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2934 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2935 Closes: #106514, #85520
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2939 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2945 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2951 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2957 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2963 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2969 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2972 change it in debhelper v4..
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2976 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2982 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2985 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2989 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2992 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2996 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3002 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3005 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3006 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3007 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3008 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3009 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3010 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3011 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3012 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3013 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3014 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3015 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3016 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3020 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3023 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3027 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3034 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3037 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3038 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3039 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3040 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3041 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3042 program those options go to. So, for example,
3043 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3044 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3045 something complex. Closes: #89311
3046 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3050 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3053 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3054 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3055 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3059 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3062 through loop. Closes: #98598
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3066 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Missing semi-colon.
3069 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3070 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3074 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3077 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3078 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3079 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3083 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3086 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3087 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3091 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3094 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3098 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3101 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3102 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3106 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3109 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3110 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3111 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3115 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3118 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3119 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3120 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3124 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3127 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3131 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3137 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3143 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3149 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3155 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3158 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3162 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3165 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3166 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3167 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3168 followed. Closes: #85483
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3172 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3174 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3175 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3176 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3180 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3183 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3184 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3185 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3186 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3187 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3188 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3189 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3190 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3191 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3192 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3193 Closes: #88464, #77743
3194 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3195 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3196 us to deal with that gracefully.
3197 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3199 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3200 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3201 a while, Closes: #51225
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3205 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3211 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3214 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3218 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3222 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3227 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3230 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3231 don't make packlist files.
3232 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3233 debhelper coding standards.
3234 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3235 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3239 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3242 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3246 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3249 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3250 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3251 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3252 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3253 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3254 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3255 but is mildly deprecated.
3256 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3257 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3258 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3259 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3260 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3261 switching to statoverrides..
3262 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3263 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3264 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3265 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3266 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3267 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3269 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3270 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3271 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3272 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3273 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3274 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3275 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3276 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3277 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3279 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3280 variable names, pod man pages).
3281 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3282 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3283 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3284 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3285 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3286 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3287 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3291 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3297 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3304 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3307 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3311 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3313 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3314 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3315 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3319 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3321 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3322 they were previously ignored.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3326 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3328 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3329 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3333 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3335 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3336 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3337 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3341 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3343 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3347 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3349 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3350 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3356 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3357 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3358 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3359 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3360 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3361 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3362 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3363 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3364 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3365 it is an obsolete program.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3371 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3379 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3385 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3387 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3389 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3391 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3395 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3401 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * typo: Closes, #78567
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3407 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3413 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3419 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3422 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3423 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3424 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3425 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3426 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3430 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3433 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3438 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3441 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3442 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3443 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3444 backwards-compatability.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3448 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3451 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3452 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3453 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3454 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3455 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3456 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3458 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3459 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3460 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3462 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3464 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3465 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3466 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3467 should now be raised to severity important..
3468 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3469 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3473 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3476 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3481 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3487 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3493 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3499 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3506 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3509 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3510 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3511 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3512 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3516 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3522 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3525 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3526 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3527 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3528 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3529 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3530 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3535 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3538 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3542 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3548 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3551 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3556 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3559 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3560 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3561 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3562 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3566 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3570 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3573 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3576 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3577 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3580 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3582 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3583 the TODO entry about it.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3587 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3594 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3597 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3598 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3605 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3606 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3607 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3608 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3612 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3618 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3625 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3628 (this appears to be logal).
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3632 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3635 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3636 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3637 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3638 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3642 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3644 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3648 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3651 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3652 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3653 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3654 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3658 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3664 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3667 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3681 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3682 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3683 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3688 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3695 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3704 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3705 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3706 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3707 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3708 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3709 notice until v2 is complete.
3710 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3711 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3712 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3713 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3714 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3715 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3717 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3718 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3719 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3720 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3730 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3737 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3740 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3751 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3754 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3755 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3756 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3757 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3762 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3765 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3766 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3767 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3775 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3776 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3783 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3787 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3789 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3790 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3794 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3801 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3804 depend on the build and install targets.
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3808 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3811 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3815 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3834 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3837 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3838 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3839 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3840 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3841 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3842 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3844 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3845 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3846 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3847 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3848 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3849 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3850 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3854 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3860 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3866 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3869 right place. Closes: #55065
3871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3873 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3875 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3880 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3883 * Copyright date updates.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3887 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3890 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3895 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3901 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3908 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3926 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3929 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3930 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3931 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3932 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3933 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3934 bits until all files have been registered.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3938 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_installmanpages:
3941 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3942 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3943 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3944 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3945 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3946 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3947 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3948 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3949 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3950 otherwise change the result at all.
3952 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3953 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3954 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3955 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3956 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3961 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3967 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3970 act on files that don't exist.
3971 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3972 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3973 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3975 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3976 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3977 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3978 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3982 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3988 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3990 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3994 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3997 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4001 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4004 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4006 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4007 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4008 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4015 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4016 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4017 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4018 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4019 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4020 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4021 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4023 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4025 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4029 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4036 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4048 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4051 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4055 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4061 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4067 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4070 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4071 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4072 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4073 I made some changes, though:
4074 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4075 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4076 that is a clear violation of policy.
4077 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4078 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4079 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4080 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4081 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4082 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4083 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4084 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4085 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4087 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4091 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4093 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4097 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4100 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4104 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4107 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4108 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4119 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4126 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4129 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4130 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4131 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4132 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4133 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4134 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4135 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4139 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4145 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4149 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4150 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4154 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4163 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4167 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4169 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4170 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4171 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4175 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4177 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4182 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4184 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4186 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4190 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4193 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4194 for the dependancies to be generated.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4198 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4201 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4205 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4208 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4209 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4210 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4215 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4218 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4219 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4223 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4225 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4229 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4235 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4238 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4242 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4248 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4251 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4252 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4253 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4254 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4255 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4256 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4257 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4258 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4259 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4260 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4261 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4262 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4266 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4268 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4269 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4270 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4272 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4273 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4274 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4275 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4276 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4277 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4279 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4280 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4287 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4291 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4298 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4300 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4301 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4306 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4309 for building debhelper.
4310 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4314 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4316 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4321 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4324 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4328 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4331 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4332 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4333 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4334 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4335 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4336 it's always available.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4343 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4344 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4345 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4349 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4352 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4353 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4357 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4366 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4370 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4376 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4378 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4379 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4380 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4381 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4385 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4388 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4396 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4397 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4399 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4400 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4404 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4410 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4416 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4418 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4419 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4423 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4425 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4426 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4427 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4429 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4433 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4435 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4436 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4437 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4438 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4445 things if CDPATH is set.
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4449 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4455 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4458 seems to make sense for the transition.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4462 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4465 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4470 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4472 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4473 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4474 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4478 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4481 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4488 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4489 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4490 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4491 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4501 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4503 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4504 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4505 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4506 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4507 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4508 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4509 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4510 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4511 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4512 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4513 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4518 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4521 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4522 * README: mention doc/v2
4523 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4524 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4528 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4530 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4531 be using this script RSN.
4533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4535 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4537 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4538 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4539 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4540 more than 1 init script.
4542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4544 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4546 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4547 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4551 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Changed perl version detection.
4554 * Changed call to find.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4558 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4561 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4563 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4568 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * Really include dh_installpam.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4574 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4577 * Wrote man page for same.
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4581 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4584 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4585 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4590 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4592 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4597 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4599 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4600 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4601 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4602 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4603 x bit was being set!
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4610 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4611 well. (Closes: 38900)
4613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4615 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4617 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4618 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4619 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4629 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4636 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4642 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4645 help from Julian Gilbey.
4646 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4647 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4648 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4649 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4650 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4651 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4652 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4657 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4659 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4663 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4665 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4670 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4685 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4692 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4696 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4699 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4703 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4705 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4709 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4712 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4722 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4724 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4728 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4730 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4731 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4732 may be deleted. (#35845)
4734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4736 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4738 * Various man page enhancements.
4739 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4744 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4747 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4748 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4752 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4755 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4756 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4757 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4759 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4760 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4771 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4773 * Another very minor typo fix.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4777 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Very minor typo fix.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4783 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4786 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4787 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4791 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4797 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4799 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4800 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4801 variables properly (#34850).
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4805 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4811 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4813 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4814 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4815 (automatically generated by build process).
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4819 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4821 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4825 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4827 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4828 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4829 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4831 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4835 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4837 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4838 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4842 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * README: minor typo fix.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4848 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4851 leave it at that. :-)
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4855 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4861 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4867 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4870 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4871 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4872 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4876 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4879 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4883 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4886 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4890 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4892 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4893 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4894 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4895 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4896 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4900 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4902 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4903 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4904 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4905 Craig Small for spotting this.
4907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4909 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4911 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4912 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4913 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4917 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4919 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4923 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4926 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4930 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4932 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4933 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4934 working on the last version of debhelper.
4936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4938 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4940 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4941 being made. (#23255)
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4945 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4951 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4954 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4958 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4960 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4961 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4962 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4963 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4964 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4968 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4970 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4971 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4972 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4973 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4974 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4976 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4977 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4979 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4984 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4990 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4999 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5000 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5001 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5002 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5003 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5004 suidregister actually supports it.
5005 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5006 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5010 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5017 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5019 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5020 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5021 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5022 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5023 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5024 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5025 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5026 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5030 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5032 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5033 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5037 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5039 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5040 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5041 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5042 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5043 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5047 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5049 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5050 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5052 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5053 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5054 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5055 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5056 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5057 effect, either. (#30118)
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5067 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5070 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5071 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5075 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5084 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5085 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5086 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5087 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5091 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5093 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5094 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5095 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5099 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5101 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5105 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5108 packages, painlessly.
5110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5112 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5114 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5118 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5120 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5124 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5126 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5130 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5132 * The perl conversion is complete.
5134 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5136 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5137 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5138 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5143 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5145 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5146 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5147 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5148 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5152 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5154 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5155 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5157 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5159 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5160 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5167 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5168 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5172 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5174 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5178 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5181 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5182 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5183 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5184 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5185 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5192 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5193 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5194 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5195 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5199 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5201 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5202 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5206 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5208 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5209 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5210 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5211 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5212 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5213 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5214 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5215 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5216 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5220 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5222 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5226 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5228 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5229 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5230 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5231 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5236 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5239 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5243 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5246 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5250 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5252 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5253 sections of shared libraries.
5254 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5255 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5256 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5257 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5258 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5259 things you don't want them to.
5260 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5261 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5265 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5268 shared libraries. (#26414)
5270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5272 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5274 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5275 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5276 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5277 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5281 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5285 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5287 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5288 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5289 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5290 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5291 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5295 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5297 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5298 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5302 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5304 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5305 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5306 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5311 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5313 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5314 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5318 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5321 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5322 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5323 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5324 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5325 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5327 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5328 remove debian/files properly.
5329 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5330 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5331 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5332 * Removed bogus menu file.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5336 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5339 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5343 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5346 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5347 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5348 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5349 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5350 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5351 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5355 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5357 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5358 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5359 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5360 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5361 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5365 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5372 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5374 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5375 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5376 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5379 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5380 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5381 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5382 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5383 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5387 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5389 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5390 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5391 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5392 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5393 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5394 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5395 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5396 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5397 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5398 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5399 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5400 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5401 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5402 passed any switches.
5403 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5407 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5409 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5410 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5411 at all for a long while.
5412 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5413 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5414 large chunks in the process.
5415 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5416 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5417 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5422 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5425 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5427 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5432 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5434 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5435 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5436 that don't always have the same files in them.
5437 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5438 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5439 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5443 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5445 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5447 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5448 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5449 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5450 updating 27 man pages.
5451 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5452 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5453 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5454 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5455 programs act on. (#25247)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5459 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5463 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5464 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5465 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5466 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5467 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5468 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5473 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5480 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5482 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5487 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5490 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5494 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5500 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5503 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5504 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5505 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5506 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5507 package by accident.
5508 * Is version 1.0 next?
5510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5512 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5514 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5515 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5516 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5520 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5522 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5523 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5524 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5525 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5526 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5527 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5529 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5534 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5537 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5538 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5542 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5544 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5545 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5549 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5551 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5552 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5553 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5558 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5560 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5564 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5566 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5567 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5568 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5573 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5579 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5582 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5583 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5584 past week. Thanks, guys!
5586 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5587 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5588 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5589 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5590 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5591 would do in the same situation.
5592 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5593 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5595 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5597 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5598 permissions changed.
5599 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5600 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5601 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5602 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5603 files are treated identically.
5604 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5605 * Minor man page fixes.
5606 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5607 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5608 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5612 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5614 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5615 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5616 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5617 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5618 use -X multiple times, too.
5619 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5620 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5624 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5627 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5628 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5632 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5634 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5635 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5639 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5641 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5642 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5643 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5644 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5645 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5646 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5647 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5648 shape if you're starting a new package.
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5652 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5655 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5659 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5661 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5662 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5663 because of missing symlinks.
5665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5667 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5669 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5673 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5675 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5676 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5677 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5678 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5679 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5680 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5682 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5683 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5687 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5689 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5690 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5691 to be changed after the fact :-)
5692 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5696 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5698 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5699 no version string after the -V.
5701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5703 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5705 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5706 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5711 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5713 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5714 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5718 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5720 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5721 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5722 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5723 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5724 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5725 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5726 I always welcome corrections!
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5730 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5736 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5738 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5739 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5740 * Documented this new switch.
5742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5744 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5746 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5747 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5748 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5749 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5750 no packages use the old behavior.
5752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5754 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5756 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5757 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5758 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5762 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5764 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5765 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5769 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5771 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5775 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5777 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5778 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5782 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5785 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5786 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5787 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5791 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5793 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5797 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5800 into the source package by accident.
5802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5804 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5806 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5807 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5808 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5809 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5810 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5811 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5812 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5817 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5821 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5822 inspired to implement some of it.
5823 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5827 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5829 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5830 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5834 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5836 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5837 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5838 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5842 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5844 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5845 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5846 have done.) (#17598)
5848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5850 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5852 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5856 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5862 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5865 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5869 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5872 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5873 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5877 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5880 argument processor in perl.
5881 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5882 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5883 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5884 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5888 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5891 type directories. (#16933)
5892 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5893 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5894 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5895 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5896 are supported. (#16935)
5897 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5902 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5905 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5909 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5911 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5913 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5914 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5915 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5916 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5917 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5918 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5922 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5925 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5926 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5929 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5930 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5931 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5932 a given package, or -i or -a.
5933 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5934 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5935 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5936 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5937 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5938 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5939 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5940 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5941 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5943 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5944 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5945 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5949 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5952 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5953 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5958 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5960 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5961 does not have a section.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5965 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5968 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5969 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5970 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5974 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5976 * Fixed typo #16215.
5978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5980 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5982 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5983 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5984 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5985 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5986 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5987 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5992 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5995 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5996 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5997 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6002 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6004 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6008 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6014 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6017 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6018 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6019 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6020 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6021 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6022 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6026 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6028 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6032 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6034 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6035 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6039 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6041 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6042 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6043 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6044 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6048 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6050 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6051 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6055 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6057 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6061 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6064 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6068 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6070 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6071 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6075 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6081 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6084 postinst, postrm, etc.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6094 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6096 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6097 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6098 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6099 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6100 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6101 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6105 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6107 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6108 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6109 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6113 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6115 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6116 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6120 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6122 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6123 installing package files into.
6124 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6129 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6131 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6133 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6137 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6139 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6143 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6145 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6146 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6150 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6153 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6154 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6155 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6156 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6160 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6162 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6163 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6164 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6165 multiple binary packages.
6166 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6167 should rebuild them with this version.
6168 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6172 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6179 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6181 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6182 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6186 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6189 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6190 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6191 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6192 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6193 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6194 debian/README.debian.
6195 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6196 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6197 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6198 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6199 in a few situations.)
6201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6203 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6205 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6209 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6211 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6215 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6218 * Fixed several man pages.
6220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6222 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6224 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6225 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6226 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6230 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6232 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6233 is ready for general use.
6234 * Added man pages for all commands.
6235 * Multiple binary package support.
6236 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6237 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6238 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6240 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6241 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6242 auto-installed as parameters.
6243 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6245 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6248 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6249 the package build directory it is to act on.
6250 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6251 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6252 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6256 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6258 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6259 ready to replace debstd.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400