1 debhelper (7.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh: Disable option bundling to avoid mis-parsing bundled options such
4 as "-Bpython-support". Closes: #570039
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:10 -0500
8 debhelper (7.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing images in /usr/share/info. Closes: #567586
11 * Fix handling of -O with options specified by commands. Closes: #568081
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:15:41 -0500
15 debhelper (7.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_bugfiles: Doc typo. Closes: #563269
18 * makefile: Support the (asking for trouble) case of MAKE being set to
19 something with a space in it. Closes: #563557
20 * Fix warning about unknown options passed to commands in override targets.
21 * Add -O option, which can be used to pass options to commands, ignoring
22 options that they do not support.
23 * dh: Use -O to pass user-specified options to the commands it runs.
24 This solves the problem with passing "-Bbuild" to dh, where commands
25 that do not support -B would see a bogus -u option. Closes: #541773
26 (It also ensures that the commands dh prints out can really be run.)
27 * qmake: New buildsystem contributed by Kel Modderman. Closes: #566840
28 * Fix typo in call to abs2rel in --builddir sanitize code.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:23:02 -0500
33 debhelper (7.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh(1): Minor rewording of documentation of override commands.
37 * dh(1): Add an example of using an override target to avoid
38 dh running several commands. Closes: #560600
39 * dh_installman: Avoid doubled slashes in path. Closes: #561275
40 * dh_installxfonts: Use new update-fonts-alias --include and
41 --exclude options to better handle removal in the case where
42 xfonts-utils is removed before a font package is purged.
43 (#543512; thanks, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan)
44 * dh: Optimise handling of noop overrides, avoiding an unnecessary
45 call to make to handle them. (Modestas Vainius)
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:32:34 -0500
49 debhelper (7.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Add --parallel option that can be used to enable parallel building
52 without limiting the max number of parallel jobs. (Modestas Vainius)
53 * dh_makeshlibs: Temporarily revert fix for #557603, as it caused
54 dpkg-gensymbols to see libraries not in the regular search path and
55 broke builds. This will be re-enabled in v8. Closes: #560217
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:17:19 -0500
59 debhelper (7.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Typo. Closes: #558654
62 * dh_installinit: Fix installation of defaults file when an upstart job is
63 installed. Closes: #558782
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:21:10 -0500
67 debhelper (7.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Parallel building support is no longer enabled by default. It can still
70 be enabled by using the --max-parallel option. This was necessary because
71 some buildds build with -j2 by default. (See #532805)
72 * dh: Document --no-act. Closes: #557505
73 * dh_makeshlibs: Make -X also exclude libraries from the symbols file.
74 Closes: #557603 (Peter Samuelson)
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:57:10 -0500
78 debhelper (7.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
80 * make: Avoid infinite make recursion that occurrs when testing existence
81 of a target in a certian horribly broken makefile, by making the test stop
82 after it sees one line of output from make. (This may be better replaced
83 with dh's makefile parser in the future.) Closes: #557307
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:35:22 -0500
87 debhelper (7.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Update --list to reflect buildsystem autoselection changes.
90 * Remove last vestiages of support for /usr/X11R6.
91 * cmake: Fix deep recursion in test. Closes: #557299
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:08:48 -0500
95 debhelper (7.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
97 * ant: Fix auto-selection breakage. Closes: #557006 (Cyril Brulebois)
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:53:39 -0500
101 debhelper (7.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
103 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
104 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
105 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
106 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
107 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
108 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
109 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
110 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
111 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
112 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
113 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
114 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
115 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
116 time soon.) Closes: #554509
117 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
119 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatibility level 4.
120 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
121 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
122 document id. Closes: #555677
123 * Typo. Closes: #555659
124 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
125 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
126 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
127 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
129 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
130 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
131 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:44:21 -0500
136 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
139 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
140 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
141 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
142 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
143 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
144 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
145 translation (#494300 part 2)
148 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
150 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
151 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
152 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
153 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
154 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
158 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
161 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
162 (It was only run once due to logging.)
163 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
164 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
165 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
166 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
167 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
168 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
169 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
170 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
171 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
172 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
176 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
180 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
183 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
184 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
188 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
191 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
192 flag with arch all/any packages.
193 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
194 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
195 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
196 situation. Closes: #540794
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
200 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
202 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
204 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
205 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
206 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
207 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
208 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
211 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
212 the default. Closes: #538201
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
217 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
221 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
222 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
223 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
224 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
225 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
227 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
228 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
229 * Above Closes: #491117
230 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
235 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
241 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
242 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
243 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
247 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
250 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
251 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
252 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
253 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
254 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
259 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
262 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
263 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
267 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
269 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
273 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
275 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
276 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
278 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
279 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
280 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
284 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
286 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
287 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
291 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
297 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
299 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
300 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
301 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
306 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
308 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
312 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
315 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
316 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
317 created by using `python' first during build and install.
319 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
324 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
326 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
330 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
332 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
333 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
337 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
339 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
343 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
345 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
349 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
351 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
352 contributed by Modestas Vainius
353 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
354 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
355 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
356 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
357 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
358 that support it. Closes: #480577
359 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
360 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
361 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
363 - Adds support for cmake.
364 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
365 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
367 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
369 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
370 that use them. The options are:
371 --sourcedir, --destdir
372 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
373 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
374 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
375 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
376 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
380 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
386 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
389 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
390 default. Closes: #537140
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
394 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
397 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
398 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
402 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
405 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
409 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
411 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
412 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
419 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
421 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
422 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
423 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
427 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
430 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
431 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
432 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
436 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
439 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
440 warning or deprecation message.
441 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
442 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
443 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
444 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
445 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
446 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
447 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
448 Closes: #534639, #357434
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
452 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
458 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
460 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
461 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
462 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
463 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
464 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
466 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
467 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
468 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
472 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
478 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
485 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
488 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
492 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
494 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
496 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
497 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
499 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
500 file support. Closes: #494914
501 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
505 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
508 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
509 parameters. Closes: #527256
510 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
511 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
512 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
516 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
518 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
520 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
521 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
522 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
526 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
529 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
530 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
531 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
535 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
538 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
539 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
541 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
542 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
543 by triggers). Closes: #521181
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
547 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
551 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
555 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
558 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
559 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
560 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
561 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
566 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
568 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
572 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
575 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
576 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
577 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
578 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
579 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
581 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
582 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
583 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
584 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
585 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
586 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
590 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
593 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
594 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
595 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
596 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
597 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
599 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
603 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
605 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
609 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
611 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
612 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
613 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
614 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
615 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
616 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
617 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
618 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
619 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
620 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
621 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
625 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
627 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
628 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
630 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
631 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
632 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
633 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
635 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
636 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
640 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
642 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
643 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
644 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
645 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
646 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
647 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
648 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
650 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
651 that uses them. Affected options are:
652 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
653 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
654 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
655 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
656 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
657 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
658 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
659 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
660 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
661 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
662 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
663 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
667 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
674 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
680 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
682 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
683 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
685 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
686 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
687 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
688 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
689 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
691 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
693 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
694 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
695 rules (see bug #509756).
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
699 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
705 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
706 * Typo. Closes: #493062
707 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
708 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
712 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
715 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
716 empty files. Closes: #490937
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
720 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
726 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
733 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
736 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
737 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
738 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
739 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
744 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
746 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
747 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
748 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
749 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
753 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
756 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
757 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
758 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
759 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
760 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
764 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
771 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
773 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
774 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
775 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
776 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
777 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
778 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
779 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
780 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
781 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
782 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
786 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
788 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
789 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
790 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
791 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
792 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
794 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
795 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
796 breaking backwards compatibility.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
800 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
803 message in perl 5.10.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
807 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
813 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Convert copyright file to new format.
816 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
820 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
823 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
827 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
829 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
830 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
831 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
832 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
833 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
834 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
835 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
836 logging by dh_listpackages.
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
840 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
843 run and there are no packages of that type.
844 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
845 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
846 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
847 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
849 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
850 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
854 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
856 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
857 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
858 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
862 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
865 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
866 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
868 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
869 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
870 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
871 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
872 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
873 planned but not yet implemented.)
874 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
875 if the Makefile has such a target.
876 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
877 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
878 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
879 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
880 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
881 but not yet implemented.)
882 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
883 recommended default, especially when using dh.
884 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
885 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
886 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
888 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
890 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
891 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
893 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
894 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
895 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
900 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
903 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
904 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
908 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
910 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
911 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
912 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
916 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
918 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
922 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
924 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
928 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
931 just those installed by the program.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
935 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
937 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
938 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
939 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
943 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
946 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
947 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
948 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
949 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
953 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
956 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
957 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
961 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
963 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
964 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
965 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
969 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
971 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
972 with policy. Closes: #461392
973 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
974 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
975 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
976 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
977 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
981 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
984 Closes: #460340, #460351
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
988 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
991 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
992 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
993 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
994 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
998 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
1001 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
1002 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
1003 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
1004 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
1005 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
1006 package build directory won't work.
1007 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
1008 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
1009 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
1010 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
1011 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
1012 mode. Closes: #459426
1013 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
1018 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
1021 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
1025 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
1029 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
1030 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
1031 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
1032 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
1033 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
1034 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
1038 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
1041 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
1042 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
1043 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
1044 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
1048 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
1051 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
1052 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
1053 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
1054 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
1055 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
1059 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
1062 debian/package.triggers files.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
1066 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
1069 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
1076 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
1077 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
1078 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
1079 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
1084 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
1087 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
1091 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
1094 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
1095 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
1097 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1102 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1106 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1107 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1108 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1112 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1119 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1126 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1129 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1131 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1132 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1133 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1135 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1136 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1137 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1141 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1144 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1145 * Update urls to web page.
1146 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1147 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1148 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1149 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1153 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1156 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1157 - typo in alternatives call
1158 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1160 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1161 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1165 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1168 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1173 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1179 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1185 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1188 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1190 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1191 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1192 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1193 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1194 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1195 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1196 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1197 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1198 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1199 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1200 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1204 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1207 package install. Closes: #415717
1208 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1209 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1210 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1211 script and then remove the python files.
1212 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1213 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1214 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1215 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1216 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1217 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1218 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1219 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1220 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1221 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1222 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1223 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1224 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1228 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Correct typo in french translation
1234 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1235 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1237 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1239 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1240 Closes: #406921, #381940
1241 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1243 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1244 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1245 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1246 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1247 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1248 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1249 specified). Closes: #381851
1250 * Misc minor changes.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1254 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1261 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1262 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1266 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1272 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1273 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1276 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1277 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1279 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1280 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1281 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1282 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1286 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1289 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1292 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1296 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1302 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1308 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1309 a difficult situation.
1310 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1311 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1312 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1313 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1314 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1315 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1316 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1317 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1318 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1319 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1323 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Non-maintainer upload.
1326 * Update of dh_python
1327 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1328 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1330 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1331 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1332 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1333 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1334 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1336 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1338 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Non-maintainer upload.
1341 * Update of dh_python
1342 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1343 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1344 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1345 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1346 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1347 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1348 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1349 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1350 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1351 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1353 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1354 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1355 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1356 the not too-distant future).
1357 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1358 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1359 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1360 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1361 thus made the build fail.
1363 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1365 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Non-maintainer upload.
1368 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1370 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1372 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1375 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1376 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1377 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1378 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1379 package. Closes: #301424
1380 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1381 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1382 fonts). Closes: #372686
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1386 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1392 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1393 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1394 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1395 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1396 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1397 above, but already depends on that.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1401 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1404 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1405 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1406 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1407 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1408 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1412 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1418 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1424 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1425 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1429 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1432 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1436 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1440 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1441 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1442 new version (0.24.1).
1443 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1444 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1447 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1448 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1449 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1450 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1451 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1452 new directory on their own.
1453 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1454 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1458 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1461 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1462 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1463 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1464 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1468 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1471 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1472 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1473 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1474 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1475 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1479 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1485 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1489 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1490 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1494 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1495 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1499 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1501 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1502 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1504 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1505 ignored. Closes: #337664
1507 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1512 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1518 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1523 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1524 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1525 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1526 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1527 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1528 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1529 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1533 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1536 version. Closes: #350607
1537 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1538 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1539 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1540 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1544 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1547 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1548 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1549 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1553 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1560 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1566 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1569 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1573 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1576 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1577 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1578 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1579 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1580 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1581 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1585 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1588 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1589 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1594 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1597 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1601 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1604 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1611 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1612 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1613 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1614 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1615 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1616 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1620 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1624 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1625 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1626 link. Closes: #346405
1627 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1629 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1630 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1631 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1632 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1633 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1634 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1635 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1639 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1646 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1652 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1655 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1659 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1662 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1667 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1671 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1672 installed. Closes: #342033
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1676 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1679 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1680 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1681 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1686 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1692 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1698 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1702 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1703 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1704 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1708 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1711 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1716 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1723 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1729 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatibility
1732 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1733 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1734 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1735 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1736 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1737 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1738 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1740 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1744 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1747 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1748 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1755 in standard man dirs.
1756 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1760 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1769 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1788 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1791 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1792 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1796 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1799 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1800 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1801 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1803 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1805 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1811 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1817 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1820 mode. Closes: #324161
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1824 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1827 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1828 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1829 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1830 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1835 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1838 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1839 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1840 is necesary for sanity.
1841 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1842 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1847 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1849 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1850 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1857 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1861 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1867 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Begin work on compatibility level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1870 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1871 released, so use at your own risk.
1872 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1873 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1875 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1876 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1877 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1878 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1879 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1880 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1881 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1882 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1883 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1884 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1885 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1886 including twice per config file line now..
1887 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1888 and simplfy the rules file.
1889 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1890 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1891 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1893 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1894 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1898 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1901 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1908 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1915 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1919 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1922 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1923 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1924 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1925 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1926 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1927 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1931 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1934 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1935 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1936 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1941 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1944 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1945 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1950 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1953 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1954 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1955 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1960 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1963 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1964 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1965 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1969 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1975 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1982 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1985 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1986 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1987 unknown. Closes: #282924
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1991 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1998 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * Spanish man page updates.
2001 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
2006 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
2012 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
2015 * dh_desktop: reindent
2016 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
2017 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
2021 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
2027 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2029 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
2033 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
2035 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
2039 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
2042 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
2043 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
2047 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
2053 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
2059 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
2066 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
2069 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
2073 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
2076 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
2077 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
2078 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
2079 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
2080 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
2081 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
2083 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
2084 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
2085 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
2086 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
2087 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
2088 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
2089 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
2090 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
2091 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
2092 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
2093 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
2094 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
2095 in the others, and added a few new tests.
2096 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
2097 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
2098 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2102 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2109 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2112 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2116 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2119 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2123 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2126 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2130 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2133 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2137 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2143 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2149 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2155 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2158 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2159 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2160 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2164 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2167 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2171 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2174 but occasionally right and necessary.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2178 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2181 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2182 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2183 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2184 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2185 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2189 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2192 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2194 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2195 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2196 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2197 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2198 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2199 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2200 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2201 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2202 postinst scripts for udebs.
2203 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2207 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2210 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2212 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2213 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2217 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2223 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2230 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2237 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2240 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2244 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2247 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2251 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2254 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2257 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2258 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2262 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2268 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2271 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2275 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2278 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2279 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2280 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2282 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2284 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2285 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2286 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2290 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2293 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2298 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2301 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2302 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2303 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2308 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2314 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2323 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2324 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2325 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2326 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2327 associated -dbg packages.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2334 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2341 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2348 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2355 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2360 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2363 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2367 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2370 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2375 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2378 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2382 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2386 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2387 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2388 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2389 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2390 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2391 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2392 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2393 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2394 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2395 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2399 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2402 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2407 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2410 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2411 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2418 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2419 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2424 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2427 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2431 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2434 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2438 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2441 out section number. Closes: #204731
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2445 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2452 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2458 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2464 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2467 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2468 removal. Closes: #204286
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2472 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2475 renaming. Closes: #203548
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2479 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2482 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2483 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2493 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2499 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2505 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2508 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2509 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2510 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2514 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2517 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2518 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2522 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2535 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2538 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2543 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2546 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2550 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2553 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2555 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2556 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2560 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2563 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2568 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2571 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2575 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2581 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2583 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2590 it break hard links (see #188663).
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2594 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2597 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2601 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2607 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2611 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2612 debconf-mergetemplates
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2616 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2619 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2626 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2630 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2633 * Update debhelper(1).
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2637 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2640 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2641 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2642 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2643 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2644 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2648 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2651 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2652 the shell. Closes: #178524
2653 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2657 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2660 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2664 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2667 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2671 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2674 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2675 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2676 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2677 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2682 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2685 files from installation.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2689 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2692 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2693 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2697 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2700 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2704 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2707 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2711 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2717 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2723 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2727 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2728 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2730 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2734 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2736 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2737 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2738 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2739 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2740 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2744 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2747 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2751 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2754 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2755 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2759 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2763 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2768 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2774 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2778 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2779 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2780 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2788 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2789 practice. Closes: #163303
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2809 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2811 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2812 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2813 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2814 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2815 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2819 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2822 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2827 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2843 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2866 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2873 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2876 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2877 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2878 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2879 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2884 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2890 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2897 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2900 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2901 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2905 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2908 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2909 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2910 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2911 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2912 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2916 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2919 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2921 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2926 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2929 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2936 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2937 right thing. Closes: #150644
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2941 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Stupid, evil typo.
2944 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2948 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2958 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2959 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2964 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2970 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2973 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2977 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2980 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2981 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2986 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2989 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2993 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2999 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
3002 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
3003 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
3007 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
3013 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Removing perl warning message.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
3019 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
3022 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
3023 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
3024 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
3025 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
3026 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
3027 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
3028 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
3029 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
3033 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
3039 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
3046 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
3049 debconf-mergetemplate.
3050 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
3051 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
3055 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
3058 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
3059 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
3060 dh_install, which ...
3061 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
3062 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
3063 mess, as it uses debian/install.
3064 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
3065 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
3066 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
3067 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
3068 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
3069 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
3070 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
3071 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
3072 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
3073 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
3074 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
3075 other minor changes.
3076 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
3077 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
3078 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
3079 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
3080 course there's -X ..)
3081 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
3082 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
3083 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
3085 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
3086 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
3087 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
3088 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
3089 for woody should continue to use whatever compatibility level they are
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
3094 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3100 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3103 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3107 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3113 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3119 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3125 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3131 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3134 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3135 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3136 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3137 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3139 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3140 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3144 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3150 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3153 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3157 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3160 upset. Closes: #131322
3162 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3164 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3167 what debhelper compatibility level your package uses. It has the big
3168 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3169 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3170 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3171 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3172 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3173 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3174 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3175 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3176 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3177 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3178 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3179 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3180 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3181 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3183 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3187 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3190 - Better indenting of generated code.
3191 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3195 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3199 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3200 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3201 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3202 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3203 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3204 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3205 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3209 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3212 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3216 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3219 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3220 compatibility in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3221 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3222 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3223 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3224 compatibility, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3225 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3226 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3227 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3228 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3229 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3230 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3231 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3232 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3233 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3238 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3244 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3247 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3248 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3252 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3255 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3256 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3260 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3266 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3269 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3270 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3271 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3272 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3273 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3278 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3284 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3287 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3291 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3294 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3299 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3305 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3308 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3312 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3318 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3322 Also some indentation fixes.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3326 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3329 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3330 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3331 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3332 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3333 Closes: #106514, #85520
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3337 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3343 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3349 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3355 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3361 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3367 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3370 change it in debhelper v4..
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3374 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3380 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3383 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3387 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3390 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3394 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3400 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3403 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3404 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3405 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3406 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3407 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3408 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3409 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3410 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3411 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3412 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3413 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3414 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3418 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3421 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3425 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3432 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3435 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3436 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3437 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3438 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3439 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3440 program those options go to. So, for example,
3441 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3442 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3443 something complex. Closes: #89311
3444 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3448 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3451 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3452 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3453 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3457 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3460 through loop. Closes: #98598
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3464 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Missing semi-colon.
3467 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3468 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3472 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3475 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3476 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3477 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3481 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3484 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3485 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3489 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3492 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3496 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3499 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3500 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3504 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3507 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3508 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3509 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3513 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3516 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3517 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3518 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3522 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3525 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3529 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3535 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3541 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3547 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3553 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3556 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3560 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3563 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3564 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3565 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3566 followed. Closes: #85483
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3570 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3572 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3573 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3574 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3578 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3581 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3582 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3583 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3584 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3585 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3586 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3587 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3588 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3589 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3590 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3591 Closes: #88464, #77743
3592 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3593 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3594 us to deal with that gracefully.
3595 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3597 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3598 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3599 a while, Closes: #51225
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3603 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3609 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3612 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3616 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3620 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3625 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3628 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3629 don't make packlist files.
3630 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3631 debhelper coding standards.
3632 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3633 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3637 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3640 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3644 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3647 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3648 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3649 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3650 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3651 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3652 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatibility,
3653 but is mildly deprecated.
3654 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3655 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3656 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3657 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3658 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3659 switching to statoverrides..
3660 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3661 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3662 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3663 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3664 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3665 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3667 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3668 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3669 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3670 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3671 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3672 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3673 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3674 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3675 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3677 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3678 variable names, pod man pages).
3679 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3680 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3681 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3682 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3683 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3684 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3685 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3689 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3695 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3702 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3705 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3709 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3711 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3712 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3713 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3719 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3720 they were previously ignored.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3724 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3726 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3727 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3731 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3733 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3734 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3735 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3739 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3741 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3745 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3747 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3748 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3752 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3754 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3755 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3756 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3757 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3758 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3759 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3760 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3761 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3762 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3763 it is an obsolete program.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3769 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3773 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3777 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3783 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3787 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3789 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3793 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3799 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * typo: Closes, #78567
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3805 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3811 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3817 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3820 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3821 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3822 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3823 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3824 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3828 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3831 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3836 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3839 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3840 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3841 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3842 backwards-compatibility.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3849 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatibility:
3850 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3851 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3852 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3853 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3854 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3856 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3857 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3858 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3860 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3862 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3863 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3864 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3865 should now be raised to severity important..
3866 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3867 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3871 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3874 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3879 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3885 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3891 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3897 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3904 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3906 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3907 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3908 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3909 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3910 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3914 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3920 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3923 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3924 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3925 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3926 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3927 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatibility.
3928 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3933 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3936 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3940 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3946 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3949 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3954 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3957 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3958 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3959 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3960 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3964 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3968 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3971 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3974 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3975 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3978 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3980 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3981 the TODO entry about it.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3985 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3987 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatibility code.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3992 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3995 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3996 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
4000 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Typo, Closes: #72932
4003 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
4004 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
4005 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
4006 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
4010 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
4016 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
4023 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
4026 (this appears to be logal).
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
4030 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
4033 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
4034 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
4035 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
4036 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
4040 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
4046 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
4049 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
4050 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
4051 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
4052 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
4056 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
4062 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
4065 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
4069 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
4076 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
4079 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
4080 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
4081 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
4086 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
4093 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4102 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatibility. That
4103 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4104 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4105 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4106 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4107 notice until v2 is complete.
4108 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4109 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4110 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4111 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4112 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4113 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4115 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4116 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4117 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4118 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4122 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4124 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4128 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4130 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4135 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4137 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4138 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4142 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4144 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4149 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4152 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4153 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4154 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4155 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4160 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4163 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4164 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4165 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4170 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4173 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4174 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4178 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4181 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4185 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4188 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4192 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4199 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4202 depend on the build and install targets.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4209 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4220 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4226 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4228 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4232 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4234 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4235 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4236 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4237 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4238 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4239 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4240 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4242 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4243 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4244 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4245 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4246 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4247 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4248 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4252 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4254 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4258 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4260 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4264 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4267 right place. Closes: #55065
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4271 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4278 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4281 * Copyright date updates.
4283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4285 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4287 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4288 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4293 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4295 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4306 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4308 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4312 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4318 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4324 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4327 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4328 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4329 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4330 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4331 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4332 bits until all files have been registered.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4336 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installmanpages:
4339 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4340 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4341 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4342 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4343 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4344 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4345 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4346 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4347 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4348 otherwise change the result at all.
4350 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4351 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4352 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4353 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4354 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4359 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4365 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4368 act on files that don't exist.
4369 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4370 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4371 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4373 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4374 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4375 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4376 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4380 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4382 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4386 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4392 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4394 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4395 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4399 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4401 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4402 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4404 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4405 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4406 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4410 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4413 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4414 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4415 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4416 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4417 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4418 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4419 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4421 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4423 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4427 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4429 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4434 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4440 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4446 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4448 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4449 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4453 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4455 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4459 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4461 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4468 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4469 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4470 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4471 I made some changes, though:
4472 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4473 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4474 that is a clear violation of policy.
4475 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4476 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4477 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4478 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4479 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4480 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4481 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4482 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4483 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4485 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4489 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4491 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4495 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4497 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4498 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4502 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4504 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4505 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4506 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4511 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4524 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4526 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4527 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4528 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4529 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4530 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4531 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4532 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4533 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4537 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4539 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4547 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4548 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4552 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4554 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4558 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4560 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4561 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4565 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * dh_installdocs: create the compatibility symlink before calling
4568 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4569 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4573 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4575 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4580 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4582 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4584 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4588 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4590 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4591 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4592 for the dependancies to be generated.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4599 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4603 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4605 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4606 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4607 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4608 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4616 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4617 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4621 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4623 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4627 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4629 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4633 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4635 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4636 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4640 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4642 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4646 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4648 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4649 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4650 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4651 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4652 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4653 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4654 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatibility symlink to
4655 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4656 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4657 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4658 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4659 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4660 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4664 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4666 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4667 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4668 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4670 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4671 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4672 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4673 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4674 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4675 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4677 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4678 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4682 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4685 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4696 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4698 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4699 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4707 for building debhelper.
4708 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4712 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4714 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4719 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4721 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4722 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4726 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4729 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4730 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4731 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4732 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4733 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4734 it's always available.
4736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4738 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4740 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4741 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4742 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4743 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4750 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4751 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4755 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4761 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4763 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4764 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4774 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4777 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4778 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4779 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4786 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4791 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4793 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4794 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4795 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4797 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4798 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4802 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4804 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4808 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4810 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4814 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4816 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4817 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4821 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4824 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4825 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4827 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4831 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4833 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4834 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4835 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4836 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4840 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4843 things if CDPATH is set.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4847 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4853 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4855 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4856 seems to make sense for the transition.
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4860 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4863 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4868 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4870 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4871 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4872 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4876 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4879 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4883 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4885 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4886 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4887 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4888 supported compatibility level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4889 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4893 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4895 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4899 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4902 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4903 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4904 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4905 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4906 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4907 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4908 current compatibility level is equal to that number.
4909 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4910 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4911 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4916 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4918 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4919 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4920 * README: mention doc/v2
4921 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4922 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4926 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4928 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4929 be using this script RSN.
4931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4933 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4935 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4936 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4937 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4938 more than 1 init script.
4940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4942 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4944 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4945 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4949 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * Changed perl version detection.
4952 * Changed call to find.
4954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4956 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4958 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4959 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4961 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4966 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * Really include dh_installpam.
4970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4972 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4974 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4975 * Wrote man page for same.
4977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4979 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4981 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4982 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4983 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4988 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4990 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4995 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4997 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4998 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4999 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
5000 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
5001 x bit was being set!
5003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
5005 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
5007 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
5008 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
5009 well. (Closes: 38900)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
5013 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
5016 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
5017 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
5019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
5021 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
5023 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
5025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
5027 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
5029 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
5038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
5040 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
5042 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
5043 help from Julian Gilbey.
5044 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
5045 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
5046 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
5047 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
5048 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
5049 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
5050 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
5053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
5055 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
5057 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
5061 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
5066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
5068 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
5074 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
5080 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
5083 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
5085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
5087 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
5089 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
5090 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
5092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
5094 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
5096 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
5097 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
5099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5101 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5103 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5107 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5109 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5110 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5114 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5116 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5120 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5122 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5126 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5129 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5130 may be deleted. (#35845)
5132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5134 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5136 * Various man page enhancements.
5137 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5142 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5145 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5146 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5150 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5152 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5153 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5154 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5155 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5157 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5158 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5163 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5165 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5169 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * Another very minor typo fix.
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5175 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * Very minor typo fix.
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5181 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5184 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5185 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5189 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5191 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5198 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5199 variables properly (#34850).
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5212 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5213 (automatically generated by build process).
5215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5217 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5219 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5223 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5225 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5226 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5227 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5229 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5236 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5240 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5242 * README: minor typo fix.
5244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5246 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5248 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5249 leave it at that. :-)
5251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5253 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5255 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5259 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5261 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5265 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5267 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5268 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5269 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5270 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5274 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5276 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5277 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5281 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5283 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5284 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5291 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5292 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5293 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5294 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5298 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5300 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5301 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5302 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5303 Craig Small for spotting this.
5305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5307 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5309 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5310 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5311 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5315 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5321 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5323 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5324 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5328 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5330 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5331 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5332 working on the last version of debhelper.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5339 being made. (#23255)
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5352 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5356 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5358 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5359 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5360 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5361 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5362 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5366 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5368 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5369 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5370 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5371 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5372 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5374 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5375 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5377 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5382 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5384 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5388 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5390 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5394 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5397 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5398 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5399 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5400 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5401 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5402 suidregister actually supports it.
5403 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5404 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5408 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5415 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5417 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5418 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5419 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5420 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5421 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5422 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5423 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5424 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5428 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5430 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5431 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5435 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5438 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5439 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5440 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5441 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5445 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5448 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5450 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5451 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5452 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5453 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5454 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5455 effect, either. (#30118)
5457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5459 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5461 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5465 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5467 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5468 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5469 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5473 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5475 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5479 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5481 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5482 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5483 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5484 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5485 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5489 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5491 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5492 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5493 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5503 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5505 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5506 packages, painlessly.
5508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5510 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5512 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5516 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5522 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5524 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5528 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5530 * The perl conversion is complete.
5532 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5534 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5535 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5536 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5541 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5544 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5545 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5546 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5550 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5552 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5553 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5555 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5557 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5558 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5562 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5565 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5566 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5570 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5572 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5576 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5578 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5579 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5580 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5581 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5582 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5583 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5587 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5589 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5590 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5591 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5592 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5593 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5597 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5599 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5600 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5604 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5606 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5607 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5608 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5609 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5610 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5611 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5612 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5613 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5614 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5618 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5620 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5624 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5626 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5627 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5628 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5629 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5634 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5637 line to skip, for backwards compatibility.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5644 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5648 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5650 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5651 sections of shared libraries.
5652 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5653 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5654 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5655 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5656 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5657 things you don't want them to.
5658 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5659 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5666 shared libraries. (#26414)
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5672 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5673 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5674 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5675 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5679 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5681 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5683 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5685 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5686 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5687 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5688 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5689 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5693 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5695 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5696 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5700 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5703 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5704 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5709 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5711 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5712 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5716 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5719 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5720 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5721 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5722 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5723 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5725 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5726 remove debian/files properly.
5727 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5728 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5729 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5730 * Removed bogus menu file.
5732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5734 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5736 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5737 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5741 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5744 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5745 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5746 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5747 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5748 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5749 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5753 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5756 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5757 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5758 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5759 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5763 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5765 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5770 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5773 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5774 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5776 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5777 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5778 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5779 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5780 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5781 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5785 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5788 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5789 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5790 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5791 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5792 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5793 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5794 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5795 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5796 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5797 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5798 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5799 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5800 passed any switches.
5801 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5805 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5807 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5808 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5809 at all for a long while.
5810 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5811 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5812 large chunks in the process.
5813 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5814 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5815 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5820 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5822 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5823 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5825 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5830 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5832 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5833 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5834 that don't always have the same files in them.
5835 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5836 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5837 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5841 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5843 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5845 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5846 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5847 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5848 updating 27 man pages.
5849 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5850 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5851 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5852 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5853 programs act on. (#25247)
5855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5857 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5861 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5862 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5863 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5864 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5865 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5866 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5878 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5885 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5887 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5888 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5892 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5898 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5900 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5901 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5902 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5903 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5904 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5905 package by accident.
5906 * Is version 1.0 next?
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5910 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5913 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5914 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5918 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5920 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5921 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5922 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5923 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5924 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5925 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5927 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5932 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5934 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5935 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5936 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5940 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5943 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5947 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5949 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5950 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5951 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5956 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5958 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5962 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5965 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5966 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5971 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5977 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5979 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5980 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5981 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5982 past week. Thanks, guys!
5984 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5985 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5986 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5987 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5988 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5989 would do in the same situation.
5990 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5991 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5993 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5995 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5996 permissions changed.
5997 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5998 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5999 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
6000 for backwards compatibility with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
6001 files are treated identically.
6002 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
6003 * Minor man page fixes.
6004 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
6005 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
6006 --no-act is on. (#23054)
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
6010 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
6013 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
6014 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
6015 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
6016 use -X multiple times, too.
6017 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
6018 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
6020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
6022 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
6024 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
6025 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
6026 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
6028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
6030 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
6032 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
6033 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
6035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
6037 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
6039 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
6040 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
6041 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
6042 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
6043 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
6044 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
6045 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
6046 shape if you're starting a new package.
6048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
6050 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
6052 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
6053 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
6055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
6057 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
6059 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
6060 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
6061 because of missing symlinks.
6063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
6065 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
6067 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
6069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
6071 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
6073 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
6074 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
6075 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
6076 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
6077 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
6078 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
6080 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
6081 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
6083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
6085 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6087 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
6088 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
6089 to be changed after the fact :-)
6090 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
6092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
6094 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6096 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
6097 no version string after the -V.
6099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6101 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6103 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6104 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6109 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6111 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6112 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6116 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6119 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6120 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6121 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6122 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6123 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6124 I always welcome corrections!
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6128 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6134 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6136 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6137 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6138 * Documented this new switch.
6140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6142 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6144 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6145 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6146 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6147 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6148 no packages use the old behavior.
6150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6152 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6154 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6155 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6156 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6160 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6163 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6167 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6173 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6175 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6176 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6180 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6182 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6183 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6184 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6185 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6189 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6191 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6195 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6197 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6198 into the source package by accident.
6200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6202 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6204 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6205 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6206 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6207 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6208 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6209 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6210 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6215 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6217 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6219 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6220 inspired to implement some of it.
6221 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6225 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6227 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6228 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6232 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6234 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6235 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6236 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6240 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6242 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6243 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6244 have done.) (#17598)
6246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6248 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6250 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6254 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6256 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6260 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6262 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6263 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6270 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6271 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6275 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6277 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6278 argument processor in perl.
6279 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6280 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6281 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6282 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6286 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6288 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6289 type directories. (#16933)
6290 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6291 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6292 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6293 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6294 are supported. (#16935)
6295 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6303 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6307 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6311 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6312 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6313 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6314 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6315 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6316 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6320 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6322 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6323 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6324 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6326 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6327 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6328 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6329 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6330 a given package, or -i or -a.
6331 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6332 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6333 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6334 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6335 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6336 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6337 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6338 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6339 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6341 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6342 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6343 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6347 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6349 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6350 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6351 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6356 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6359 does not have a section.
6361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6363 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6365 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6366 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6367 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6368 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6372 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6374 * Fixed typo #16215.
6376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6378 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6380 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6381 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6382 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6383 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6384 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6385 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6390 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6392 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6393 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6394 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6395 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6400 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6402 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6406 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6408 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6412 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6414 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6415 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6416 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6417 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6418 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6419 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6420 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6424 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6426 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6430 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6432 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6433 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6437 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6439 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6440 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6441 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6442 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6446 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6448 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6449 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6453 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6455 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6459 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6461 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6462 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6466 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6468 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6469 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6473 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6475 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6479 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6481 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6482 postinst, postrm, etc.
6484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6486 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6488 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6492 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6494 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6495 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6496 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6497 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6498 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6499 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6503 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6505 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6506 compatibility with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6507 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6511 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6513 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6514 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6518 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6520 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6521 installing package files into.
6522 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6527 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6529 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6531 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6535 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6537 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6541 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6543 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6544 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6548 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6550 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6551 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6552 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6553 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6554 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6558 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6560 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6561 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6562 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6563 multiple binary packages.
6564 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6565 should rebuild them with this version.
6566 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6570 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6572 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6573 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6577 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6579 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6580 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6584 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6586 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6587 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6588 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6589 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6590 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6591 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6592 debian/README.debian.
6593 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6594 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6595 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6596 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6597 in a few situations.)
6599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6601 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6603 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6607 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6609 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6613 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6615 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6616 * Fixed several man pages.
6618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6620 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6622 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6623 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6624 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6628 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6630 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6631 is ready for general use.
6632 * Added man pages for all commands.
6633 * Multiple binary package support.
6634 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6635 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6636 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6638 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6639 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6640 auto-installed as parameters.
6641 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6643 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6646 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6647 the package build directory it is to act on.
6648 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6649 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6650 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6654 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6656 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6657 ready to replace debstd.
6659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400