1 debhelper (7.3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons.
5 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:00:24 +0100
7 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
10 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
11 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
12 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
13 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
14 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
19 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
21 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
22 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
23 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
27 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
29 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
33 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
35 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
36 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
38 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
39 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
40 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
44 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
46 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
47 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
51 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
57 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
59 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
60 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
61 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
66 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
68 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
72 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
75 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
76 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
77 created by using `python' first during build and install.
79 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
84 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
86 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
90 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
92 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
93 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
97 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
99 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
103 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
105 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
109 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
111 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
112 contributed by Modestas Vainius
113 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
114 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
115 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
116 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
117 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
118 that support it. Closes: #480577
119 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
120 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
121 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
123 - Adds support for cmake.
124 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
125 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
127 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
129 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
130 that use them. The options are:
131 --sourcedir, --destdir
132 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
133 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
134 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
135 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
136 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
140 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
142 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
146 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
149 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
150 default. Closes: #537140
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
154 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
157 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
158 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
162 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
165 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
169 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
172 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
176 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
179 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
181 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
182 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
183 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
187 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
189 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
190 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
191 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
192 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
196 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
199 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
200 warning or deprecation message.
201 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
202 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
203 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
204 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
205 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
206 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
207 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
208 Closes: #534639, #357434
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
212 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
218 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
221 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
222 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
223 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
224 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
226 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
227 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
228 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
232 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
238 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
245 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
247 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
248 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
252 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
256 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
257 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
259 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
260 file support. Closes: #494914
261 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
265 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
268 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
269 parameters. Closes: #527256
270 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
271 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
272 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
276 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
280 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
281 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
282 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
286 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
289 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
290 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
291 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
295 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
298 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
299 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
301 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
302 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
303 by triggers). Closes: #521181
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
307 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
311 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
315 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
318 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
319 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
320 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
321 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
326 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
332 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
335 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
336 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
337 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
338 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
339 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
341 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
342 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
343 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
344 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
345 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
346 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
350 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
353 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
354 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
355 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
356 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
357 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
359 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
363 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
365 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
369 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
371 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
372 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
373 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
374 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
375 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
376 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
377 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
378 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
379 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
380 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
381 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
385 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
387 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
388 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
390 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
391 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
392 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
393 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
395 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
396 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
400 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
402 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
403 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
404 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
405 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
406 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
407 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
408 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
410 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
411 that uses them. Affected options are:
412 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
413 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
414 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
415 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
416 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
417 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
418 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
419 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
420 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
421 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
422 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
423 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
427 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
434 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
440 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
442 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
443 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
445 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
446 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
447 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
448 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
449 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
451 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
453 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
454 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
455 rules (see bug #509756).
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
459 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
465 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
466 * Typo. Closes: #493062
467 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
468 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
472 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
475 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
476 empty files. Closes: #490937
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
480 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
486 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
493 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
496 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
497 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
498 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
499 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
504 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
506 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
507 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
508 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
509 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
513 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
516 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
517 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
518 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
519 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
520 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
524 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
526 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
531 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
533 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
534 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
535 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
536 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
537 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
538 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
539 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
540 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
541 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
542 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
546 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
549 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
550 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
551 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
552 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
554 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
555 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
556 breaking backwards compatability.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
560 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
563 message in perl 5.10.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
567 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
573 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Convert copyright file to new format.
576 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
580 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
583 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
587 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
589 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
590 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
591 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
592 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
593 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
594 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
595 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
596 logging by dh_listpackages.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
600 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
603 run and there are no packages of that type.
604 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
605 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
606 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
607 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
609 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
610 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
614 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
616 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
617 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
618 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
622 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
625 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
626 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
628 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
629 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
630 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
631 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
632 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
633 planned but not yet implemented.)
634 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
635 if the Makefile has such a target.
636 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
637 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
638 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
639 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
640 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
641 but not yet implemented.)
642 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
643 recommended default, especially when using dh.
644 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
645 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
646 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
648 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
650 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
651 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
653 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
654 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
655 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
660 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
663 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
664 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
668 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
670 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
671 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
672 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
676 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
682 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
684 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
688 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
691 just those installed by the program.
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
695 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
698 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
699 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
703 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
706 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
707 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
708 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
709 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
713 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
715 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
716 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
717 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
721 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
724 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
725 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
729 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
732 with policy. Closes: #461392
733 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
734 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
735 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
736 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
737 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
741 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
744 Closes: #460340, #460351
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
748 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
750 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
751 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
752 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
753 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
754 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
758 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
761 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
762 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
763 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
764 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
765 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
766 package build directory won't work.
767 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
768 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
769 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
770 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
771 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
772 mode. Closes: #459426
773 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
778 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
781 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
785 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
789 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
790 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
791 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
792 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
793 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
794 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
798 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
801 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
802 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
803 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
804 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
808 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
811 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
812 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
813 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
814 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
815 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
819 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
822 debian/package.triggers files.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
826 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
829 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
833 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
836 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
837 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
838 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
839 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
844 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
847 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
851 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
854 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
855 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
857 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
862 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
866 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
867 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
868 * Typo. Closes: #441272
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
872 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
879 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
886 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
889 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
891 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
892 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
893 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
895 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
896 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
897 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
901 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
904 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
905 * Update urls to web page.
906 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
908 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
909 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
913 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
916 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
917 - typo in alternatives call
918 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
920 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
921 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
925 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
928 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
933 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
939 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
945 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
948 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
950 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
951 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
952 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
953 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
954 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
955 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
956 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
957 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
958 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
959 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
960 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
964 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
967 package install. Closes: #415717
968 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
969 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
970 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
971 script and then remove the python files.
972 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
973 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
974 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
975 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
976 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
977 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
978 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
979 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
980 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
981 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
982 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
983 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
984 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
988 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Correct typo in french translation
994 * Typo. Closes: #400571
995 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
997 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
999 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1000 Closes: #406921, #381940
1001 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1003 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1004 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1005 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1006 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1007 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1008 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1009 specified). Closes: #381851
1010 * Misc minor changes.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1014 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1021 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1022 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1026 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1032 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1033 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1036 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1037 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1039 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1040 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1041 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1042 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1046 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1049 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1052 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1056 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1062 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1068 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1069 a difficult situation.
1070 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1071 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1072 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1073 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1074 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1075 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1076 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1077 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1078 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1079 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1083 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Non-maintainer upload.
1086 * Update of dh_python
1087 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1088 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1090 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1091 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1092 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1093 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1094 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1096 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1098 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Non-maintainer upload.
1101 * Update of dh_python
1102 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1103 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1104 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1105 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1106 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1107 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1108 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1109 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1110 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1111 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1113 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1114 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1115 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1116 the not too-distant future).
1117 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1118 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1119 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1120 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1121 thus made the build fail.
1123 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1125 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Non-maintainer upload.
1128 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1130 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1132 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1135 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1136 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1137 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1138 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1139 package. Closes: #301424
1140 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1141 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1142 fonts). Closes: #372686
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1146 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1152 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1153 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1154 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1155 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1156 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1157 above, but already depends on that.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1161 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1164 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1165 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1166 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1167 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1168 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1172 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1178 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1184 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1185 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1189 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1192 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1200 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1201 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1202 new version (0.24.1).
1203 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1204 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1207 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1208 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1209 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1210 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1211 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1212 new directory on their own.
1213 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1214 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1218 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1221 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1222 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1223 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1224 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1228 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1231 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1232 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1233 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1234 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1235 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1239 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1245 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1249 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1250 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1254 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1255 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1259 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1261 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1262 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1264 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1265 ignored. Closes: #337664
1267 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1272 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1278 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1283 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1284 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1285 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1286 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1287 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1288 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1289 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1293 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1296 version. Closes: #350607
1297 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1298 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1299 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1300 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1304 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1307 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1308 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1309 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1313 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1320 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1326 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1329 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1333 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1336 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1337 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1338 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1339 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1340 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1341 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1345 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1348 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1349 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1354 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1357 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1361 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1364 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1368 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1371 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1372 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1373 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1374 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1375 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1376 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1380 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1384 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1385 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1386 link. Closes: #346405
1387 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1389 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1390 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1391 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1392 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1393 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1394 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1395 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1399 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1406 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1412 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1415 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1419 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1422 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1427 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1431 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1432 installed. Closes: #342033
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1436 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1439 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1440 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1441 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1446 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1452 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1458 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1462 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1463 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1464 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1468 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1471 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1476 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1483 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1489 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1492 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1493 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1494 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1495 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1496 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1497 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1498 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1500 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1504 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1507 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1508 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1512 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1515 in standard man dirs.
1516 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1520 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1526 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1529 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1534 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1541 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1548 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1551 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1552 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1556 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1559 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1560 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1561 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1563 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1565 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1571 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1577 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1580 mode. Closes: #324161
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1584 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1587 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1588 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1589 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1590 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1598 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1599 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1600 is necesary for sanity.
1601 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1602 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1607 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1609 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1610 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1614 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1617 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1621 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1627 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1630 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1631 released, so use at your own risk.
1632 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1633 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1635 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1636 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1637 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1638 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1639 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1640 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1641 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1642 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1643 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1644 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1645 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1646 including twice per config file line now..
1647 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1648 and simplfy the rules file.
1649 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1650 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1651 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1653 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1654 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1658 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1661 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1665 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1668 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1672 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1675 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1679 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1682 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1683 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1684 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1685 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1686 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1687 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1691 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1694 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1695 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1696 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1701 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1704 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1705 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1710 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1713 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1714 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1715 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1720 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1723 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1724 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1725 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1729 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1735 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1742 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1745 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1746 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1747 unknown. Closes: #282924
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1751 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1758 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Spanish man page updates.
1761 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1766 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1772 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1775 * dh_desktop: reindent
1776 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1777 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1781 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1787 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1789 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1793 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1795 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1799 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1802 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1803 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1807 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1813 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1826 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1829 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1836 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1837 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1838 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1839 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1840 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1841 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1843 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1844 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1845 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1846 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1847 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1848 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1849 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1850 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1851 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1852 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1853 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1854 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1855 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1856 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1857 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1858 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1869 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1872 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1876 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1879 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1883 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1886 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1890 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1893 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1897 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1903 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1909 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1915 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1918 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1919 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1920 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1924 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1927 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1931 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1934 but occasionally right and necessary.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1938 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1941 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1942 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1943 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1944 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1945 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1949 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1952 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1954 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1955 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1956 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1957 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1958 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1959 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1960 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1961 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1962 postinst scripts for udebs.
1963 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1967 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1970 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1972 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1973 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1977 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1983 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1990 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1997 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2000 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2004 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2007 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2011 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2014 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2017 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2018 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2022 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2031 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2035 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2038 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2039 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2040 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2042 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2044 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2045 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2046 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2050 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2053 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2058 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2061 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2062 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2063 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2068 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2074 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2080 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2083 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2084 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2085 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2086 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2087 associated -dbg packages.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2091 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2094 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2098 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2101 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2105 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2108 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2112 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2115 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2120 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2123 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2127 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2130 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2135 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2138 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2142 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2146 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2147 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2148 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2149 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2150 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2151 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2152 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2153 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2154 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2155 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2162 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2167 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2170 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2171 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2175 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2178 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2179 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2184 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2187 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2191 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2194 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2198 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2201 out section number. Closes: #204731
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2205 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2212 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2218 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2224 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2227 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2228 removal. Closes: #204286
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2232 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2235 renaming. Closes: #203548
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2239 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2242 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2243 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2247 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2253 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2259 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2265 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2268 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2269 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2270 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2274 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2277 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2278 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2288 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2295 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2298 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2303 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2306 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2310 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2313 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2315 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2316 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2320 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2323 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2328 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2331 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2341 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2343 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2347 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2350 it break hard links (see #188663).
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2354 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2357 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2361 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2367 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2371 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2372 debconf-mergetemplates
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2376 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2379 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2383 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2386 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2390 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2393 * Update debhelper(1).
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2397 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2400 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2401 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2402 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2403 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2404 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2408 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2411 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2412 the shell. Closes: #178524
2413 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2417 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2420 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2424 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2427 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2431 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2434 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2435 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2436 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2437 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2442 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2445 files from installation.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2449 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2452 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2453 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2457 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2460 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2464 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2467 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2471 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2477 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2483 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2487 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2488 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2490 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2494 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2497 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2498 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2499 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2500 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2504 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2507 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2511 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2514 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2515 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2519 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2523 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2528 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2534 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2538 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2539 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2540 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2545 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2548 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2549 practice. Closes: #163303
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2553 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2559 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2566 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2569 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2571 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2572 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2573 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2574 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2575 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2579 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2582 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2587 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2593 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2600 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2603 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2608 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2626 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2633 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2636 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2637 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2638 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2639 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2644 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2650 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2657 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2660 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2661 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2665 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2668 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2669 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2670 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2671 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2672 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2676 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2679 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2681 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2686 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2689 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2696 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2697 right thing. Closes: #150644
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2701 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * Stupid, evil typo.
2704 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2708 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2715 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2718 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2719 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2724 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2730 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2733 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2740 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2741 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2746 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2749 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2753 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2759 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2762 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2763 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2767 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Removing perl warning message.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2779 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2782 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2783 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2784 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2785 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2786 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2787 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2788 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2789 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2793 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2799 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2806 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2809 debconf-mergetemplate.
2810 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2811 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2815 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2818 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2819 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2820 dh_install, which ...
2821 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2822 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2823 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2824 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2825 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2826 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2827 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2828 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2829 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2830 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2831 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2832 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2833 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2834 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2835 other minor changes.
2836 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2837 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2838 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2839 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2840 course there's -X ..)
2841 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2842 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2843 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2845 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2846 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2847 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2848 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2849 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2854 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2860 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2863 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2867 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2873 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2879 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2885 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2891 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2894 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2895 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2896 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2897 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2899 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2900 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2904 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2910 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2913 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2917 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2920 upset. Closes: #131322
2922 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2924 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2927 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2928 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2929 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2930 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2931 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2932 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2933 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2934 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2935 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2936 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2937 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2938 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2939 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2940 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2941 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2943 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2947 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2950 - Better indenting of generated code.
2951 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2955 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2959 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2960 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2961 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2962 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2963 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2964 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2965 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2969 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2972 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2976 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2979 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2980 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2981 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2982 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2983 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2984 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2985 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2986 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2987 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2988 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2989 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2990 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2991 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2992 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2993 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2998 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3004 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3007 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3008 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3012 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3015 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3016 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3020 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3026 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3029 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3030 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3031 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3032 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3033 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3038 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3044 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3047 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3051 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3054 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3059 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3065 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3068 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3072 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3078 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3082 Also some indentation fixes.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3086 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3089 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3090 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3091 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3092 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3093 Closes: #106514, #85520
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3097 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3103 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3109 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3115 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3121 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3127 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3130 change it in debhelper v4..
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3134 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3140 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3143 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3147 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3150 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3154 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3160 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3163 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3164 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3165 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3166 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3167 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3168 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3169 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3170 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3171 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3172 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3173 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3174 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3178 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3181 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3185 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3192 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3195 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3196 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3197 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3198 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3199 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3200 program those options go to. So, for example,
3201 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3202 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3203 something complex. Closes: #89311
3204 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3211 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3212 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3213 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3217 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3220 through loop. Closes: #98598
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3224 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * Missing semi-colon.
3227 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3228 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3232 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3235 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3236 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3237 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3241 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3244 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3245 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3249 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3252 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3256 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3259 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3260 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3264 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3267 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3268 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3269 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3273 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3276 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3277 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3278 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3282 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3285 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3289 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3295 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3301 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3307 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3313 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3316 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3320 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3323 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3324 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3325 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3326 followed. Closes: #85483
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3330 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3332 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3333 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3334 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3338 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3341 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3342 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3343 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3344 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3345 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3346 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3347 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3348 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3349 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3350 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3351 Closes: #88464, #77743
3352 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3353 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3354 us to deal with that gracefully.
3355 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3357 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3358 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3359 a while, Closes: #51225
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3363 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3369 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3372 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3376 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3380 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3385 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3388 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3389 don't make packlist files.
3390 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3391 debhelper coding standards.
3392 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3393 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3397 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3400 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3404 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3407 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3408 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3409 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3410 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3411 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3412 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3413 but is mildly deprecated.
3414 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3415 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3416 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3417 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3418 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3419 switching to statoverrides..
3420 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3421 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3422 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3423 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3424 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3425 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3427 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3428 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3429 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3430 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3431 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3432 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3433 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3434 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3435 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3437 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3438 variable names, pod man pages).
3439 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3440 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3441 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3442 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3443 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3444 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3445 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3449 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3455 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3462 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3465 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3469 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3471 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3472 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3473 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3477 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3479 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3480 they were previously ignored.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3484 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3486 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3487 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3491 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3493 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3494 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3495 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3499 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3501 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3505 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3507 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3508 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3512 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3514 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3515 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3516 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3517 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3518 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3519 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3520 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3521 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3522 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3523 it is an obsolete program.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3527 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3529 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3533 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3537 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3539 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3543 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3547 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3549 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3553 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3559 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * typo: Closes, #78567
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3565 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3571 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3577 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3580 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3581 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3582 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3583 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3584 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3588 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3590 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3591 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3596 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3599 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3600 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3601 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3602 backwards-compatability.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3606 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3609 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3610 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3611 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3612 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3613 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3614 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3616 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3617 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3618 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3620 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3622 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3623 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3624 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3625 should now be raised to severity important..
3626 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3627 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3634 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3639 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3645 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3651 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3664 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3667 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3668 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3669 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3670 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3674 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3680 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3683 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3684 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3685 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3686 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3687 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3688 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3696 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3709 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3714 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3717 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3718 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3719 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3720 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3724 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3728 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3731 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3734 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3735 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3738 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3740 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3741 the TODO entry about it.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3745 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3752 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3755 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3756 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3760 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3762 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3763 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3764 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3765 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3766 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3770 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3776 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3783 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3786 (this appears to be logal).
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3790 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3793 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3794 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3795 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3796 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3800 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3809 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3810 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3811 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3812 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3816 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3822 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3825 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3839 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3840 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3841 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3846 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3853 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3859 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3861 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3862 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3863 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3864 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3865 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3866 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3867 notice until v2 is complete.
3868 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3869 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3870 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3871 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3872 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3873 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3875 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3876 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3877 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3878 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3895 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3898 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3902 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3909 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3912 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3913 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3914 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3915 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3923 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3924 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3925 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3933 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3934 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3938 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3941 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3945 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3948 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3952 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3959 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3961 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3962 depend on the build and install targets.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3966 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3969 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3973 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3980 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3986 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3992 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3995 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3996 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3997 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3998 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3999 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4000 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4002 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4003 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4004 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4005 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4006 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4007 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4008 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4012 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4018 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4020 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4024 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4026 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4027 right place. Closes: #55065
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4031 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4038 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4041 * Copyright date updates.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4045 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4048 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4059 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4066 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4072 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4078 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4084 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4087 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4088 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4089 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4090 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4091 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4092 bits until all files have been registered.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4096 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_installmanpages:
4099 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4100 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4101 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4102 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4103 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4104 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4105 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4106 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4107 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4108 otherwise change the result at all.
4110 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4111 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4112 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4113 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4114 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4119 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4125 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4127 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4128 act on files that don't exist.
4129 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4130 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4131 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4133 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4134 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4135 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4136 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4140 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4146 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4155 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4159 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4162 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4164 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4165 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4166 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4170 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4173 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4174 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4175 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4176 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4177 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4178 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4179 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4181 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4183 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4187 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4189 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4194 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4196 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4200 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4202 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4206 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4209 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4213 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4219 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4225 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4228 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4229 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4230 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4231 I made some changes, though:
4232 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4233 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4234 that is a clear violation of policy.
4235 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4236 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4237 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4238 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4239 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4240 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4241 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4242 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4243 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4245 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4249 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4255 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4258 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4262 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4265 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4266 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4271 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4277 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4284 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4287 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4288 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4289 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4290 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4291 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4292 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4293 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4297 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4303 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4307 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4308 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4312 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4314 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4318 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4320 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4321 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4325 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4328 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4329 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4333 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4335 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4344 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4348 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4351 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4352 for the dependancies to be generated.
4354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4356 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4358 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4359 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4363 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4365 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4366 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4367 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4368 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4376 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4377 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4381 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4387 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4393 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4395 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4396 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4400 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4406 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4409 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4410 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4411 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4412 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4413 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4414 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4415 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4416 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4417 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4418 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4419 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4420 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4427 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4428 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4430 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4431 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4432 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4433 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4434 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4435 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4437 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4438 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4445 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4449 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4451 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4456 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4458 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4459 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4464 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4466 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4467 for building debhelper.
4468 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4472 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4474 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4479 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4482 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4486 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4489 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4490 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4491 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4492 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4493 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4494 it's always available.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4498 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4501 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4502 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4503 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4507 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4509 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4510 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4511 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4515 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4517 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4524 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4528 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4530 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4534 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4536 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4537 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4538 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4539 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4543 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4545 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4546 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4551 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4554 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4555 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4557 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4558 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4562 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4564 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4574 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4576 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4577 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4581 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4583 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4584 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4585 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4587 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4591 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4593 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4594 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4595 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4596 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4600 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4602 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4603 things if CDPATH is set.
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4607 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4613 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4616 seems to make sense for the transition.
4618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4620 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4622 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4623 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4628 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4630 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4631 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4632 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4636 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4638 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4639 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4643 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4645 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4646 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4647 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4648 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4649 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4653 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4655 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4659 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4661 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4662 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4663 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4664 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4665 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4666 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4667 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4668 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4669 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4670 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4671 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4676 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4678 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4679 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4680 * README: mention doc/v2
4681 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4682 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4686 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4688 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4689 be using this script RSN.
4691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4693 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4695 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4696 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4697 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4698 more than 1 init script.
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4702 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4705 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4709 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4711 * Changed perl version detection.
4712 * Changed call to find.
4714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4716 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4718 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4719 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4721 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4726 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4728 * Really include dh_installpam.
4730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4732 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4734 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4735 * Wrote man page for same.
4737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4739 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4741 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4742 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4743 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4748 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4750 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4755 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4757 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4758 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4759 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4760 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4761 x bit was being set!
4763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4765 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4767 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4768 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4769 well. (Closes: 38900)
4771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4773 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4775 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4776 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4777 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4781 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4794 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4803 help from Julian Gilbey.
4804 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4805 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4806 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4807 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4808 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4809 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4810 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4815 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4817 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4821 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4823 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4828 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4834 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4840 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4842 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4843 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4847 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4849 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4850 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4854 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4856 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4857 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4867 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4870 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4874 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4880 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4882 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4886 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4888 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4889 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4890 may be deleted. (#35845)
4892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4894 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4896 * Various man page enhancements.
4897 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4902 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4904 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4905 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4906 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4910 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4912 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4913 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4914 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4915 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4917 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4918 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4923 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4925 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4929 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * Another very minor typo fix.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4935 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * Very minor typo fix.
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4941 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4944 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4945 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4949 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4951 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4955 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4958 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4959 variables properly (#34850).
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4963 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4969 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4971 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4972 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4973 (automatically generated by build process).
4975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4977 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4979 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4983 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4985 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4986 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4987 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4989 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4993 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4995 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4996 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5000 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5002 * README: minor typo fix.
5004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5006 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5008 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5009 leave it at that. :-)
5011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5013 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5015 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5019 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5025 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5027 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5028 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5029 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5030 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5034 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5037 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5041 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5043 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5044 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5048 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5050 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5051 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5052 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5053 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5054 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5058 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5060 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5061 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5062 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5063 Craig Small for spotting this.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5067 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5070 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5071 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5075 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5084 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5088 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5090 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5091 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5092 working on the last version of debhelper.
5094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5096 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5098 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5099 being made. (#23255)
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5112 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5116 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5118 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5119 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5120 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5121 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5122 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5126 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5128 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5129 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5130 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5131 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5132 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5134 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5135 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5137 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5142 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5148 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5150 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5154 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5156 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5157 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5158 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5159 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5160 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5161 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5162 suidregister actually supports it.
5163 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5164 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5168 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5170 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5175 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5177 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5178 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5179 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5180 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5181 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5182 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5183 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5184 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5188 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5190 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5191 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5195 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5197 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5198 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5199 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5200 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5201 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5205 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5207 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5208 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5210 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5211 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5212 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5213 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5214 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5215 effect, either. (#30118)
5217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5219 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5221 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5225 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5227 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5228 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5229 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5233 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5235 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5239 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5241 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5242 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5243 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5244 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5245 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5252 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5253 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5257 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5259 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5263 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5265 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5266 packages, painlessly.
5268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5270 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5272 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5276 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5278 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * The perl conversion is complete.
5292 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5294 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5295 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5296 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5301 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5303 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5304 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5305 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5306 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5313 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5315 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5317 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5318 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5322 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5324 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5325 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5326 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5330 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5332 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5336 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5339 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5340 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5341 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5342 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5343 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5347 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5349 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5350 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5351 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5352 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5353 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5357 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5359 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5360 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5364 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5366 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5367 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5368 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5369 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5370 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5371 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5372 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5373 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5374 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5378 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5380 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5384 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5386 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5387 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5388 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5389 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5394 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5396 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5397 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5401 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5404 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5408 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5411 sections of shared libraries.
5412 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5413 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5414 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5415 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5416 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5417 things you don't want them to.
5418 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5419 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5423 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5425 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5426 shared libraries. (#26414)
5428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5430 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5432 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5433 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5434 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5435 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5439 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5443 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5445 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5446 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5447 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5448 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5449 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5453 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5455 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5456 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5460 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5462 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5463 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5464 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5472 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5476 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5479 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5480 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5481 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5482 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5483 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5485 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5486 remove debian/files properly.
5487 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5488 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5489 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5490 * Removed bogus menu file.
5492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5494 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5496 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5497 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5501 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5503 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5504 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5505 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5506 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5507 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5508 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5509 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5513 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5515 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5516 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5517 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5518 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5519 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5523 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5525 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5533 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5534 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5536 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5537 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5538 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5539 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5540 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5541 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5545 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5547 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5548 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5549 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5550 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5551 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5552 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5553 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5554 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5555 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5556 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5557 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5558 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5559 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5560 passed any switches.
5561 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5565 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5567 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5568 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5569 at all for a long while.
5570 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5571 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5572 large chunks in the process.
5573 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5574 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5575 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5580 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5582 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5583 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5585 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5590 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5593 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5594 that don't always have the same files in them.
5595 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5596 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5597 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5601 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5603 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5605 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5606 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5607 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5608 updating 27 man pages.
5609 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5610 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5611 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5612 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5613 programs act on. (#25247)
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5617 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5621 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5622 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5623 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5624 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5625 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5626 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5631 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5633 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5638 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5640 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5645 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5647 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5648 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5652 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5654 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5658 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5660 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5661 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5662 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5663 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5664 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5665 package by accident.
5666 * Is version 1.0 next?
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5670 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5673 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5674 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5678 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5680 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5681 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5682 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5683 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5684 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5685 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5687 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5692 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5695 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5696 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5700 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5702 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5703 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5707 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5709 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5710 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5711 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5716 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5718 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5722 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5724 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5725 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5726 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5731 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5737 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5739 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5740 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5741 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5742 past week. Thanks, guys!
5744 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5745 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5746 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5747 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5748 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5749 would do in the same situation.
5750 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5751 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5753 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5755 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5756 permissions changed.
5757 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5758 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5759 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5760 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5761 files are treated identically.
5762 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5763 * Minor man page fixes.
5764 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5765 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5766 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5770 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5772 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5773 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5774 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5775 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5776 use -X multiple times, too.
5777 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5778 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5782 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5784 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5785 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5786 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5790 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5792 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5793 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5797 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5799 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5800 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5801 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5802 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5803 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5804 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5805 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5806 shape if you're starting a new package.
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5810 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5813 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5817 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5819 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5820 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5821 because of missing symlinks.
5823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5825 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5827 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5831 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5834 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5835 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5836 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5837 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5838 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5840 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5841 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5845 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5847 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5848 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5849 to be changed after the fact :-)
5850 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5854 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5856 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5857 no version string after the -V.
5859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5861 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5863 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5864 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5869 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5871 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5872 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5876 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5878 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5879 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5880 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5881 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5882 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5883 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5884 I always welcome corrections!
5886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5888 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5890 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5894 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5896 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5897 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5898 * Documented this new switch.
5900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5902 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5904 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5905 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5906 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5907 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5908 no packages use the old behavior.
5910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5912 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5914 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5915 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5916 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5920 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5922 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5923 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5927 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5929 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5933 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5935 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5936 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5940 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5942 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5943 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5944 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5945 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5949 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5955 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5958 into the source package by accident.
5960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5962 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5964 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5965 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5966 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5967 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5968 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5969 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5970 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5975 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5977 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5979 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5980 inspired to implement some of it.
5981 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5985 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5987 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5988 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5992 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5994 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5995 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5996 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6000 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6002 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6003 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6004 have done.) (#17598)
6006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6008 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6010 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6014 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6016 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6020 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6022 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6023 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6027 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6029 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6030 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6031 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6035 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6037 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6038 argument processor in perl.
6039 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6040 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6041 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6042 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6046 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6049 type directories. (#16933)
6050 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6051 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6052 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6053 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6054 are supported. (#16935)
6055 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6060 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6063 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6067 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6071 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6072 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6073 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6074 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6075 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6076 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6080 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6083 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6084 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6086 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6087 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6088 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6089 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6090 a given package, or -i or -a.
6091 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6092 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6093 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6094 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6095 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6096 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6097 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6098 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6099 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6101 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6102 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6103 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6110 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6111 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6116 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6118 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6119 does not have a section.
6121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6123 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6125 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6126 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6127 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6128 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6132 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * Fixed typo #16215.
6136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6138 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6140 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6141 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6142 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6143 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6144 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6145 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6150 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6152 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6153 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6154 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6155 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6160 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6166 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6168 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6172 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6174 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6175 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6176 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6177 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6178 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6179 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6180 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6184 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6190 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6192 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6193 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6197 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6199 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6200 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6201 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6202 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6206 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6208 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6209 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6213 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6215 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6219 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6221 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6222 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6226 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6228 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6229 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6233 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6239 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6241 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6242 postinst, postrm, etc.
6244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6246 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6248 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6252 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6254 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6255 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6256 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6257 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6258 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6259 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6263 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6266 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6267 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6271 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6273 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6274 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6278 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6281 installing package files into.
6282 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6291 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6295 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6297 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6301 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6303 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6304 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6308 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6310 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6311 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6312 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6313 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6314 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6318 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6320 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6321 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6322 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6323 multiple binary packages.
6324 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6325 should rebuild them with this version.
6326 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6330 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6333 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6337 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6340 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6344 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6346 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6347 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6348 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6349 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6350 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6351 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6352 debian/README.debian.
6353 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6354 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6355 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6356 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6357 in a few situations.)
6359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6361 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6363 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6367 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6369 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6373 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6376 * Fixed several man pages.
6378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6380 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6382 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6383 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6384 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6388 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6390 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6391 is ready for general use.
6392 * Added man pages for all commands.
6393 * Multiple binary package support.
6394 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6395 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6396 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6398 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6399 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6400 auto-installed as parameters.
6401 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6403 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6406 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6407 the package build directory it is to act on.
6408 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6409 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6410 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6414 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6416 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6417 ready to replace debstd.
6419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400