1 debhelper (7.4.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * The makefile buildsystem (and derived buildsystems cmake, autoconf, etc)
4 now supports parallel building by default, as specified via
5 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Closes: #532805
6 * dh_auto_*: Add --max-parallel option that can be used to control
7 or disable parallel building. --max-parallel=1 will disable parallel
8 building, while --max-parallel=N will limit the maximum number of
9 parallel processes that can be specified via DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
10 * Added some hacks to avoid warnings about unavailable jobservers when
11 debhelper runs make, and the parent debian/rules was run in parallel
12 mode (as dpkg-buildpackage -j currently does).
13 * Thanks, Modestas Vainius for much of the work on parallel build support.
14 * Add deprecation warnings for -u to the documentation, since putting
15 options after -- is much more sane. (However, -u will not go away any
16 time soon.) Closes: #554509
17 * Separate deprecated programs in the list of commands in debhelper(7).
19 * Adjust code to add deprecation warning for compatability level 4.
20 (Man page already said it was deprecated.) Closes: #555899
21 * dh_installdocs: Warn if a doc-base file cannot be parsed to find a
22 document id. Closes: #555677
23 * Typo. Closes: #555659
24 * cmake: Set CTEST_OUTPUT_ON_FAILURE when running test suite.
25 Closes: #555807 (Modestas Vainius)
26 * autoconf: If configure fails, display config.log. Intended to make
27 it easier to debug configure script failures on autobuilders.
29 * Improve build system autoselection process; this allows cmake to be
30 autoselected for steps after configure, instead of falling back to
31 makefile once cmake generated a makefile. Closes: #555805
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:45 -0400
36 debhelper (7.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
39 * update french translation. Closes: #494300, #477703
40 * add --previous at po4a command into Makefile
41 * add dh, dh_auto_install, dh_auto_clean, dh_auto_configure,
42 dh_auto_install, dh_auto_test, dh_bugfiles, dh_icons, dh_installifupdown,
43 dh_installudev, dh_lintian, dh_prep into po4a.cfg manpages list
44 * fix a spelling mistake in dh_makeshlibs man french
45 translation (#494300 part 2)
48 * dh_perl: Do not look at perl scripts under /usr/share/doc.
50 * Allow dpkg-architecture to print errors to stderr. Closes: #548636
51 * python_distutils: Run default python last, not first, and pass --force
52 to setup.py install to ensure that timestamps do not prevent installation
53 of the scripts built for the default python, with unversioned shebang
54 lines. Closes: #547510 (Thanks, Andrew Straw)
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:37:38 -0400
58 debhelper (7.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Man page typo. Closes: #545443
61 * dh: Remove duplicate dh_installcatalogs list. Closes: #545483
62 (It was only run once due to logging.)
63 * dh_installdocs: Add --link-doc option that can be used to link
64 documentation directories. This is easier to use and more flexible
65 than the old method of running dh_link first to make a broken symlink.
66 Closes: #545676 Thanks, Colin Watson
67 * Reorder dh_pysupport call in dh sequence to come before
68 dh_installinit, so the generated postinst script registers
69 python modules before trying to use them. Closes: #546293
70 * dh_installudev: With --name, install debian/<package>.<name>.udev
71 to rules.d/<priority>-<name>, the same as debian/<name>.udev
72 is installed for the first package. Closes: #546337
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:46:49 -0400
76 debhelper (7.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installinit: Support upstart job files, and provide compatibility
80 symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc implementations. Closes: #536035.
83 * Add FILES sections to man pages. Closes: #545041
84 * dh_prep(1): Clarify when it should be called. Closes: #544969
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:44:40 -0400
88 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
91 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
92 flag with arch all/any packages.
93 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
94 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
95 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
96 situation. Closes: #540794
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
100 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
104 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
105 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
106 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
107 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
108 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
111 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
112 the default. Closes: #538201
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
117 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
121 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
122 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
123 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
124 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
125 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
127 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
128 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
129 * Above Closes: #491117
130 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
135 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
141 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
142 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
143 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
147 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
150 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
151 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
152 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
153 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
154 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
159 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
162 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
163 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
167 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
169 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
173 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
175 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
176 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
178 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
179 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
180 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
184 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
186 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
187 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
191 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
197 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
199 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
200 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
201 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
206 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
208 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
212 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
215 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
216 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
217 created by using `python' first during build and install.
219 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
224 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
226 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
230 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
232 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
233 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
237 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
239 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
243 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
245 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
249 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
251 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
252 contributed by Modestas Vainius
253 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
254 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
255 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
256 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
257 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
258 that support it. Closes: #480577
259 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
260 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
261 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
263 - Adds support for cmake.
264 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
265 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
267 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
269 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
270 that use them. The options are:
271 --sourcedir, --destdir
272 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
273 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
274 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
275 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
276 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
280 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
282 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
286 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
289 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
290 default. Closes: #537140
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
294 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
296 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
297 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
298 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
302 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
305 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
309 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
312 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
316 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
319 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
321 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
322 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
323 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
327 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
330 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
331 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
332 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
336 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
339 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
340 warning or deprecation message.
341 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
342 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
343 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
344 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
345 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
346 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
347 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
348 Closes: #534639, #357434
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
352 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
358 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
361 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
362 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
363 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
364 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
366 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
367 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
368 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
372 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
378 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
385 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
388 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
392 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
396 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
397 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
399 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
400 file support. Closes: #494914
401 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
405 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
408 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
409 parameters. Closes: #527256
410 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
411 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
412 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
416 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
418 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
420 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
421 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
422 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
426 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
429 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
430 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
431 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
435 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
438 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
439 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
441 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
442 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
443 by triggers). Closes: #521181
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
447 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
451 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
455 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
458 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
459 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
460 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
461 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
466 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
472 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
475 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
476 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
477 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
478 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
479 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
481 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
482 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
483 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
484 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
485 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
486 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
490 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
492 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
493 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
494 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
495 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
496 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
497 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
499 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
503 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
505 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
509 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
511 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
512 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
513 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
514 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
515 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
516 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
517 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
518 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
519 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
520 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
521 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
525 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
527 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
528 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
530 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
531 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
532 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
533 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
535 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
536 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
540 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
542 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
543 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
544 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
545 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
546 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
547 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
548 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
550 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
551 that uses them. Affected options are:
552 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
553 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
554 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
555 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
556 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
557 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
558 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
559 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
560 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
561 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
562 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
563 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
567 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
574 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
580 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
582 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
583 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
585 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
586 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
587 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
588 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
589 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
591 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
593 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
594 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
595 rules (see bug #509756).
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
599 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
605 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
606 * Typo. Closes: #493062
607 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
608 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
612 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
614 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
615 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
616 empty files. Closes: #490937
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
620 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
626 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
633 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
636 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
637 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
638 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
639 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
644 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
646 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
647 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
648 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
649 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
653 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
656 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
657 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
658 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
659 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
660 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
664 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
671 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
673 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
674 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
675 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
676 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
677 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
678 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
679 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
680 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
681 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
682 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
686 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
689 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
690 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
691 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
692 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
694 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
695 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
696 breaking backwards compatability.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
700 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
702 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
703 message in perl 5.10.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
707 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
713 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Convert copyright file to new format.
716 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
720 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
723 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
727 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
730 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
731 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
732 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
733 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
734 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
735 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
736 logging by dh_listpackages.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
740 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
742 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
743 run and there are no packages of that type.
744 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
745 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
746 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
747 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
749 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
750 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
754 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
756 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
757 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
758 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
762 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
765 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
766 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
768 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
769 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
770 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
771 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
772 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
773 planned but not yet implemented.)
774 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
775 if the Makefile has such a target.
776 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
777 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
778 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
779 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
780 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
781 but not yet implemented.)
782 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
783 recommended default, especially when using dh.
784 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
785 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
786 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
788 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
790 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
791 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
793 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
794 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
795 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
800 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
803 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
804 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
808 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
810 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
811 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
812 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
816 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
822 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
828 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
831 just those installed by the program.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
835 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
838 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
839 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
843 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
845 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
846 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
847 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
848 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
849 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
853 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
856 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
857 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
861 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
864 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
865 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
869 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
872 with policy. Closes: #461392
873 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
874 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
875 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
876 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
877 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
881 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
884 Closes: #460340, #460351
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
888 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
891 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
892 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
893 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
894 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
898 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
901 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
902 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
903 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
904 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
905 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
906 package build directory won't work.
907 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
908 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
909 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
910 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
911 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
912 mode. Closes: #459426
913 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
918 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
921 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
925 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
929 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
930 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
931 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
932 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
933 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
934 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
938 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
941 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
942 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
943 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
944 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
948 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
951 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
952 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
953 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
954 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
955 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
959 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
961 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
962 debian/package.triggers files.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
966 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
969 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
973 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
976 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
977 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
978 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
979 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
984 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
986 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
987 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
991 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
994 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
995 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
997 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
1002 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
1006 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
1007 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
1008 * Typo. Closes: #441272
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
1012 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
1019 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
1026 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
1029 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
1031 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
1032 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
1033 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
1035 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
1036 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
1037 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
1041 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
1044 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
1045 * Update urls to web page.
1046 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
1047 file. (Thanks Wakko)
1048 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
1049 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
1053 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
1056 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
1057 - typo in alternatives call
1058 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
1060 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
1061 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
1065 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
1068 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
1073 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1079 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1085 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1088 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1090 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1091 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1092 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1093 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1094 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1095 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1096 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1097 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1098 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1099 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1100 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1104 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1107 package install. Closes: #415717
1108 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1109 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1110 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1111 script and then remove the python files.
1112 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1113 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1114 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1115 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1116 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1117 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1118 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1119 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1120 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1121 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1122 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1123 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1124 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1128 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Correct typo in french translation
1134 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1135 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1137 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1139 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1140 Closes: #406921, #381940
1141 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1143 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1144 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1145 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1146 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1147 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1148 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1149 specified). Closes: #381851
1150 * Misc minor changes.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1154 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1161 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1162 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1166 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1172 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1173 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1176 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1177 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1179 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1180 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1181 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1182 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1186 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1189 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1192 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1196 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1202 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1208 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1209 a difficult situation.
1210 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1211 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1212 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1213 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1214 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1215 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1216 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1217 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1218 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1219 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1223 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * Non-maintainer upload.
1226 * Update of dh_python
1227 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1228 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1230 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1231 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1232 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1233 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1234 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1236 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1238 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Non-maintainer upload.
1241 * Update of dh_python
1242 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1243 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1244 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1245 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1246 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1247 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1248 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1249 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1250 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1251 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1253 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1254 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1255 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1256 the not too-distant future).
1257 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1258 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1259 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1260 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1261 thus made the build fail.
1263 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1265 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Non-maintainer upload.
1268 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1270 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1272 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1275 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1276 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1277 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1278 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1279 package. Closes: #301424
1280 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1281 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1282 fonts). Closes: #372686
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1286 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1292 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1293 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1294 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1295 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1296 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1297 above, but already depends on that.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1301 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1304 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1305 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1306 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1307 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1308 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1312 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1318 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1324 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1325 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1329 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1332 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1336 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1340 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1341 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1342 new version (0.24.1).
1343 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1344 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1347 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1348 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1349 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1350 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1351 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1352 new directory on their own.
1353 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1354 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1358 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1361 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1362 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1363 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1364 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1368 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1371 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1372 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1373 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1374 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1375 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1379 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1385 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1389 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1390 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1394 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1395 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1399 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1401 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1402 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1404 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1405 ignored. Closes: #337664
1407 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1412 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1418 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1423 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1424 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1425 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1426 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1427 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1428 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1429 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1433 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1436 version. Closes: #350607
1437 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1438 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1439 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1440 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1444 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1447 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1448 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1449 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1453 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1460 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1466 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1469 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1473 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1476 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1477 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1478 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1479 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1480 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1481 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1485 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1488 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1489 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1494 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1497 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1501 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1504 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1508 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1511 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1512 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1513 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1514 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1515 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1516 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1520 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1524 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1525 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1526 link. Closes: #346405
1527 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1529 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1530 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1531 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1532 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1533 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1534 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1535 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1539 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1546 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1548 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1552 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1555 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1559 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1562 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1567 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1571 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1572 installed. Closes: #342033
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1576 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1579 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1580 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1581 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1586 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1592 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1598 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1602 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1603 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1604 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1608 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1611 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1616 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1623 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1629 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1632 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1633 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1634 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1635 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1636 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1637 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1638 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1640 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1644 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1647 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1648 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1652 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1655 in standard man dirs.
1656 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1660 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1666 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1669 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1674 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1681 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1688 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1691 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1692 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1696 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1699 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1700 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1701 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1703 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1705 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1711 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1717 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1720 mode. Closes: #324161
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1724 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1727 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1728 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1729 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1730 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1735 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1738 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1739 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1740 is necesary for sanity.
1741 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1742 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1747 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1749 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1750 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1754 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1757 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1761 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1767 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1770 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1771 released, so use at your own risk.
1772 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1773 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1775 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1776 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1777 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1778 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1779 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1780 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1781 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1782 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1783 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1784 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1785 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1786 including twice per config file line now..
1787 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1788 and simplfy the rules file.
1789 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1790 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1791 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1793 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1794 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1798 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1801 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1805 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1808 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1812 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1815 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1819 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1822 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1823 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1824 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1825 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1826 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1827 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1831 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1834 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1835 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1836 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1841 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1844 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1845 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1850 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1853 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1854 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1855 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1860 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1863 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1864 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1865 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1869 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1875 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1882 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1885 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1886 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1887 unknown. Closes: #282924
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1891 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1898 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Spanish man page updates.
1901 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1906 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1912 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1915 * dh_desktop: reindent
1916 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1917 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1921 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1927 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1929 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1933 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1935 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1939 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1942 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1943 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1947 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1969 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1973 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1976 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1977 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1978 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1979 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1980 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1981 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1983 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1984 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1985 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1986 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1987 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1988 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1989 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1990 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1991 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1992 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1993 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1994 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1995 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1996 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1997 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1998 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
2009 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
2012 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
2016 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
2019 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
2023 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
2026 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
2030 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
2033 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
2037 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
2043 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
2049 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
2055 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
2058 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
2059 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
2060 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
2064 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
2067 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
2071 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
2074 but occasionally right and necessary.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
2078 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2081 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2082 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2083 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2084 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2085 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2092 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2094 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2095 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2096 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2097 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2098 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2099 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2100 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2101 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2102 postinst scripts for udebs.
2103 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2107 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2110 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2112 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2113 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2117 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2123 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2130 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2137 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2140 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2144 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2147 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2151 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2154 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2157 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2158 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2162 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2168 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2171 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2175 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2178 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2179 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2180 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2182 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2184 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2185 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2186 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2190 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2193 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2198 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2201 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2202 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2203 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2208 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2214 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2223 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2224 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2225 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2226 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2227 associated -dbg packages.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2231 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2234 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2238 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2241 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2248 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2255 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2260 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2263 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2267 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2270 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2275 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2278 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2282 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2286 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2287 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2288 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2289 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2290 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2291 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2292 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2293 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2294 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2295 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2299 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2302 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2307 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2310 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2311 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2315 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2318 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2319 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2324 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2327 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2331 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2334 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2338 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2341 out section number. Closes: #204731
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2345 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2352 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2358 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2367 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2368 removal. Closes: #204286
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2372 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2375 renaming. Closes: #203548
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2379 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2382 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2383 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2387 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2393 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2399 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2405 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2408 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2409 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2410 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2414 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2417 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2418 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2428 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2435 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2438 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2443 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2446 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2450 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2453 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2455 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2456 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2460 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2463 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2468 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2471 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2475 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2481 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2483 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2487 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2490 it break hard links (see #188663).
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2494 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2497 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2501 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2507 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2511 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2512 debconf-mergetemplates
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2516 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2519 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2523 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2526 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2530 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2533 * Update debhelper(1).
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2537 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2540 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2541 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2542 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2543 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2544 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2548 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2551 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2552 the shell. Closes: #178524
2553 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2557 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2560 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2564 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2567 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2571 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2574 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2575 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2576 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2577 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2582 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2585 files from installation.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2589 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2592 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2593 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2597 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2600 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2604 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2607 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2611 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2617 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2623 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2627 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2628 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2630 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2634 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2637 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2638 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2639 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2640 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2644 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2647 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2651 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2654 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2655 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2659 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2663 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2668 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2674 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2678 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2679 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2680 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2685 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2688 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2689 practice. Closes: #163303
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2693 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2699 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2706 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2709 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2711 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2712 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2713 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2714 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2715 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2719 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2722 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2727 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2733 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2740 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2743 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2748 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2760 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2766 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2773 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2776 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2777 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2778 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2779 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2784 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2790 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2797 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2800 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2801 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2805 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2808 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2809 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2810 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2811 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2812 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2816 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2819 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2821 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2826 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2829 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2833 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2836 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2837 right thing. Closes: #150644
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2841 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * Stupid, evil typo.
2844 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2848 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2855 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2858 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2859 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2864 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2870 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2873 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2877 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2880 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2881 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2886 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2889 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2893 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2899 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2902 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2903 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2907 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2913 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Removing perl warning message.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2919 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2922 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2923 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2924 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2925 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2926 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2927 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2928 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2929 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2933 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2939 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2946 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2949 debconf-mergetemplate.
2950 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2951 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2955 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2958 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2959 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2960 dh_install, which ...
2961 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2962 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2963 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2964 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2965 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2966 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2967 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2968 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2969 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2970 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2971 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2972 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2973 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2974 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2975 other minor changes.
2976 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2977 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2978 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2979 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2980 course there's -X ..)
2981 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2982 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2983 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2985 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2986 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2987 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2988 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2989 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2994 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
3000 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * Typo, Closes: #139176
3003 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
3007 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
3013 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
3019 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
3025 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
3031 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
3034 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
3035 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
3036 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
3037 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
3039 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
3040 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
3044 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
3050 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Typo, Closes: #132454
3053 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
3057 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
3060 upset. Closes: #131322
3062 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
3064 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
3067 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
3068 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
3069 line, as well as in debian/rules.
3070 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
3071 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
3072 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
3073 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
3074 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
3075 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
3076 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
3077 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
3078 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3079 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3080 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3081 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3083 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3087 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3090 - Better indenting of generated code.
3091 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3095 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3099 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3100 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3101 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3102 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3103 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3104 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3105 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3109 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3112 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3116 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3119 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3120 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3121 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3122 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3123 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3124 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3125 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3126 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3127 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3128 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3129 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3130 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3131 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3132 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3133 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3138 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3144 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3147 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3148 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3152 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3155 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3156 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3160 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3166 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3169 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3170 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3171 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3172 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3173 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3178 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3184 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3187 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3191 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3194 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3199 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3205 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3208 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3212 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3218 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3222 Also some indentation fixes.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3226 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3229 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3230 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3231 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3232 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3233 Closes: #106514, #85520
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3237 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3243 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3249 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3255 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3261 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3267 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3270 change it in debhelper v4..
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3274 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3280 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3283 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3287 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3290 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3294 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3300 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3303 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3304 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3305 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3306 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3307 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3308 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3309 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3310 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3311 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3312 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3313 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3314 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3318 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3321 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3325 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3332 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3335 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3336 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3337 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3338 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3339 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3340 program those options go to. So, for example,
3341 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3342 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3343 something complex. Closes: #89311
3344 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3348 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3351 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3352 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3353 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3357 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3360 through loop. Closes: #98598
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3364 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Missing semi-colon.
3367 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3368 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3372 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3375 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3376 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3377 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3381 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3384 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3385 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3389 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3392 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3396 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3399 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3400 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3404 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3407 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3408 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3409 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3413 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3416 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3417 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3418 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3422 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3425 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3429 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3435 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3441 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3447 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3453 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3456 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3460 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3463 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3464 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3465 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3466 followed. Closes: #85483
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3470 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3472 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3473 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3474 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3478 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3481 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3482 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3483 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3484 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3485 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3486 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3487 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3488 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3489 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3490 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3491 Closes: #88464, #77743
3492 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3493 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3494 us to deal with that gracefully.
3495 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3497 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3498 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3499 a while, Closes: #51225
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3503 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3509 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3512 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3516 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3520 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3525 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3528 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3529 don't make packlist files.
3530 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3531 debhelper coding standards.
3532 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3533 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3537 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3540 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3544 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3547 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3548 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3549 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3550 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3551 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3552 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3553 but is mildly deprecated.
3554 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3555 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3556 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3557 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3558 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3559 switching to statoverrides..
3560 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3561 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3562 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3563 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3564 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3565 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3567 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3568 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3569 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3570 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3571 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3572 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3573 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3574 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3575 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3577 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3578 variable names, pod man pages).
3579 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3580 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3581 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3582 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3583 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3584 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3585 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3589 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3591 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3595 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3602 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3605 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3609 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3611 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3612 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3613 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3617 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3619 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3620 they were previously ignored.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3624 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3626 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3627 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3631 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3633 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3634 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3635 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3639 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3641 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3645 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3647 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3648 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3652 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3654 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3655 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3656 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3657 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3658 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3659 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3660 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3661 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3662 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3663 it is an obsolete program.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3669 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3673 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3677 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3679 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3683 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3685 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3687 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3689 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3693 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3699 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3701 * typo: Closes, #78567
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3705 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3711 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3717 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3720 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3721 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3722 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3723 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3724 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3728 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3731 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3736 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3739 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3740 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3741 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3742 backwards-compatability.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3746 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3749 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3750 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3751 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3752 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3753 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3754 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3756 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3757 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3758 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3760 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3762 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3763 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3764 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3765 should now be raised to severity important..
3766 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3767 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3771 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3773 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3774 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3779 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3785 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3791 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3797 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3804 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3807 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3808 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3809 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3810 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3814 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3816 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3820 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3823 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3824 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3825 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3826 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3827 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3828 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3833 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3836 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3840 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3846 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3849 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3854 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3857 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3858 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3859 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3860 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3864 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3868 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3871 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3874 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3875 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3878 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3880 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3881 the TODO entry about it.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3885 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3892 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3895 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3896 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3900 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3903 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3904 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3905 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3906 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3910 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3916 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3918 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3923 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3926 (this appears to be logal).
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3930 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3933 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3934 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3935 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3936 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3940 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3942 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3946 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3949 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3950 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3951 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3952 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3962 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3965 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3969 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3976 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3979 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3980 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3981 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3986 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3988 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3993 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
4002 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
4003 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
4004 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
4005 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
4006 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
4007 notice until v2 is complete.
4008 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
4009 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
4010 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
4011 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
4012 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
4013 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
4015 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
4016 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
4017 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
4018 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
4022 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
4026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
4028 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
4030 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
4033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
4035 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
4037 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
4038 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
4042 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
4049 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
4052 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
4053 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
4054 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
4055 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
4058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
4060 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4062 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
4063 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
4064 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
4065 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
4070 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
4073 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
4074 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
4078 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4081 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4085 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4088 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4092 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4099 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4102 depend on the build and install targets.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4106 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4109 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4113 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4120 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4126 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4132 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4135 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4136 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4137 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4138 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4139 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4140 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4142 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4143 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4144 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4145 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4146 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4147 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4148 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4152 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4158 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4164 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4167 right place. Closes: #55065
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4171 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4178 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4181 * Copyright date updates.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4185 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4188 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4193 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4199 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4206 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4212 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4218 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4224 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4226 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4227 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4228 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4229 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4230 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4231 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4232 bits until all files have been registered.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4236 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_installmanpages:
4239 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4240 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4241 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4242 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4243 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4244 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4245 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4246 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4247 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4248 otherwise change the result at all.
4250 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4251 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4252 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4253 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4254 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4259 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4261 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4265 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4267 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4268 act on files that don't exist.
4269 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4270 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4271 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4273 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4274 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4275 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4276 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4280 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4286 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4292 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4294 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4295 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4299 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4302 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4304 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4305 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4306 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4310 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4313 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4314 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4315 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4316 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4317 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4318 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4319 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4321 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4323 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4327 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4329 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4334 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4336 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4340 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4342 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4346 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4348 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4349 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4353 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4355 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4359 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4361 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4365 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4368 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4369 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4370 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4371 I made some changes, though:
4372 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4373 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4374 that is a clear violation of policy.
4375 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4376 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4377 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4378 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4379 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4380 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4381 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4382 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4383 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4385 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4389 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4395 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4397 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4398 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4402 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4405 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4406 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4411 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4413 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4427 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4428 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4429 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4430 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4431 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4432 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4433 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4437 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4443 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4447 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4448 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4452 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4454 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4458 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4461 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4465 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4467 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4468 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4469 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4473 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4475 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4480 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4484 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4488 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4490 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4491 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4492 for the dependancies to be generated.
4494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4496 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4498 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4499 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4506 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4507 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4508 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4513 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4515 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4516 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4517 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4521 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4523 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4527 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4536 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4546 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4548 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4549 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4550 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4551 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4552 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4553 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4554 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4555 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4556 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4557 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4558 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4559 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4560 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4564 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4567 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4568 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4570 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4571 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4572 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4573 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4574 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4575 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4577 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4578 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4585 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4596 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4598 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4599 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4607 for building debhelper.
4608 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4619 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4621 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4622 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4626 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4628 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4629 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4630 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4631 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4632 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4633 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4634 it's always available.
4636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4638 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4640 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4641 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4642 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4643 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4647 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4649 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4650 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4651 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4655 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4657 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4664 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4677 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4678 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4679 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4683 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4685 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4686 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4691 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4693 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4694 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4695 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4697 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4698 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4702 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4708 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4717 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4721 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4723 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4724 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4725 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4727 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4731 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4734 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4735 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4736 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4740 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4742 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4743 things if CDPATH is set.
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4747 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4749 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4753 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4755 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4756 seems to make sense for the transition.
4758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4760 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4762 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4763 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4768 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4770 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4771 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4772 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4776 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4778 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4779 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4783 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4785 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4786 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4787 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4788 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4789 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4793 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4799 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4801 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4802 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4803 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4804 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4805 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4806 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4807 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4808 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4809 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4810 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4811 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4819 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4820 * README: mention doc/v2
4821 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4822 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4826 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4828 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4829 be using this script RSN.
4831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4833 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4835 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4836 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4837 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4838 more than 1 init script.
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4845 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4849 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4851 * Changed perl version detection.
4852 * Changed call to find.
4854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4856 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4858 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4859 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4861 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4866 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4868 * Really include dh_installpam.
4870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4872 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4874 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4875 * Wrote man page for same.
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4879 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4882 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4883 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4888 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4890 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4895 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4898 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4899 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4900 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4901 x bit was being set!
4903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4905 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4907 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4908 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4909 well. (Closes: 38900)
4911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4913 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4915 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4916 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4917 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4921 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4927 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4929 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4934 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4936 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4940 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4942 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4943 help from Julian Gilbey.
4944 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4945 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4946 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4947 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4948 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4949 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4950 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4961 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4963 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4968 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4974 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4976 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4980 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4982 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4983 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4987 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4989 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4990 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4994 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4996 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4997 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
5001 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
5003 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
5005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
5007 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
5009 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
5010 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
5012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
5014 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
5016 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
5018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
5020 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
5022 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
5026 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
5029 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
5030 may be deleted. (#35845)
5032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
5034 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
5036 * Various man page enhancements.
5037 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
5040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
5042 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
5044 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
5045 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
5046 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
5048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
5050 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
5052 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
5053 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
5054 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
5055 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
5057 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
5058 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
5061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
5063 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
5065 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
5067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
5069 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
5071 * Another very minor typo fix.
5073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
5075 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
5077 * Very minor typo fix.
5079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5081 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5083 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5084 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5085 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5089 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5091 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5098 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5099 variables properly (#34850).
5101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5103 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5105 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5112 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5113 (automatically generated by build process).
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5117 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5119 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5123 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5126 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5127 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5129 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5133 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5135 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5136 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5140 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5142 * README: minor typo fix.
5144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5146 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5148 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5149 leave it at that. :-)
5151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5153 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5155 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5159 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5161 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5165 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5167 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5168 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5169 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5170 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5174 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5176 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5177 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5181 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5183 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5184 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5188 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5190 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5191 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5192 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5193 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5194 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5198 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5200 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5201 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5202 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5203 Craig Small for spotting this.
5205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5207 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5209 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5210 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5211 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5215 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5221 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5224 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5228 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5230 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5231 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5232 working on the last version of debhelper.
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5236 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5239 being made. (#23255)
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5243 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5249 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5252 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5256 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5259 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5260 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5261 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5262 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5269 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5270 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5271 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5272 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5274 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5275 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5277 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5282 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5284 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5288 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5290 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5297 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5298 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5299 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5300 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5301 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5302 suidregister actually supports it.
5303 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5304 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5308 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5310 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5315 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5317 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5318 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5319 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5320 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5321 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5322 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5323 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5324 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5328 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5330 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5331 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5335 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5337 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5338 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5339 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5340 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5341 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5345 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5348 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5350 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5351 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5352 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5353 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5354 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5355 effect, either. (#30118)
5357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5359 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5361 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5365 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5367 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5368 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5369 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5373 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5375 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5379 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5382 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5383 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5384 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5385 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5389 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5392 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5393 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5403 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5405 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5406 packages, painlessly.
5408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5410 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5412 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5416 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5418 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5422 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5424 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5428 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5430 * The perl conversion is complete.
5432 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5434 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5435 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5436 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5441 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5443 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5444 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5445 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5446 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5450 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5452 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5453 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5455 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5457 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5458 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5462 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5465 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5466 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5470 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5472 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5476 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5478 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5479 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5480 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5481 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5482 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5483 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5487 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5489 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5490 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5491 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5492 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5493 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5497 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5499 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5500 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5504 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5506 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5507 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5508 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5509 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5510 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5511 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5512 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5513 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5514 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5518 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5520 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5524 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5527 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5528 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5529 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5534 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5536 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5537 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5541 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5543 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5544 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5548 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5550 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5551 sections of shared libraries.
5552 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5553 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5554 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5555 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5556 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5557 things you don't want them to.
5558 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5559 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5563 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5565 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5566 shared libraries. (#26414)
5568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5570 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5572 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5573 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5574 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5575 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5579 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5581 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5583 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5585 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5586 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5587 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5588 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5589 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5593 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5595 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5596 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5600 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5602 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5603 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5604 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5609 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5612 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5616 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5618 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5619 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5620 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5621 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5622 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5623 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5625 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5626 remove debian/files properly.
5627 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5628 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5629 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5630 * Removed bogus menu file.
5632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5634 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5636 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5637 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5644 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5645 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5646 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5647 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5648 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5649 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5653 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5655 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5656 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5657 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5658 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5659 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5663 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5665 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5670 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5672 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5673 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5674 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5676 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5677 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5678 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5679 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5680 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5681 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5685 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5687 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5688 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5689 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5690 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5691 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5692 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5693 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5694 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5695 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5696 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5697 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5698 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5699 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5700 passed any switches.
5701 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5705 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5707 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5708 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5709 at all for a long while.
5710 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5711 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5712 large chunks in the process.
5713 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5714 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5715 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5720 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5722 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5723 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5725 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5730 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5732 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5733 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5734 that don't always have the same files in them.
5735 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5736 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5737 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5741 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5743 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5745 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5746 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5747 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5748 updating 27 man pages.
5749 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5750 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5751 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5752 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5753 programs act on. (#25247)
5755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5757 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5761 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5762 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5763 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5764 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5765 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5766 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5771 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5773 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5778 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5780 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5785 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5787 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5788 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5792 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5798 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5801 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5802 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5803 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5804 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5805 package by accident.
5806 * Is version 1.0 next?
5808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5810 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5812 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5813 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5814 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5818 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5820 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5821 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5822 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5823 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5824 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5825 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5827 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5832 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5834 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5835 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5836 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5840 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5842 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5843 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5847 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5849 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5850 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5851 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5856 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5858 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5862 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5864 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5865 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5866 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5877 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5879 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5880 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5881 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5882 past week. Thanks, guys!
5884 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5885 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5886 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5887 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5888 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5889 would do in the same situation.
5890 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5891 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5893 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5895 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5896 permissions changed.
5897 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5898 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5899 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5900 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5901 files are treated identically.
5902 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5903 * Minor man page fixes.
5904 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5905 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5906 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5910 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5912 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5913 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5914 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5915 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5916 use -X multiple times, too.
5917 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5918 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5922 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5924 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5925 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5926 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5930 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5933 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5937 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5940 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5941 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5942 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5943 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5944 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5945 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5946 shape if you're starting a new package.
5948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5950 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5952 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5953 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5957 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5959 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5960 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5961 because of missing symlinks.
5963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5965 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5967 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5971 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5973 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5974 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5975 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5976 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5977 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5978 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5980 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5981 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5985 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5987 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5988 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5989 to be changed after the fact :-)
5990 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5994 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5996 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5997 no version string after the -V.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
6001 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
6003 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
6004 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
6007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
6009 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
6011 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
6012 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
6016 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
6019 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
6020 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
6021 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
6022 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
6023 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
6024 I always welcome corrections!
6026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
6028 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
6030 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
6032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
6034 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
6036 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
6037 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
6038 * Documented this new switch.
6040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
6042 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
6044 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
6045 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
6046 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
6047 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
6048 no packages use the old behavior.
6050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
6052 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
6054 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
6055 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
6056 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
6058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
6060 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
6062 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
6063 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
6065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
6067 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
6069 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
6071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
6073 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
6075 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
6076 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
6078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6080 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6082 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6083 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6084 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6085 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6089 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6091 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6095 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6097 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6098 into the source package by accident.
6100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6102 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6104 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6105 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6106 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6107 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6108 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6109 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6110 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6115 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6117 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6119 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6120 inspired to implement some of it.
6121 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6125 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6127 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6128 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6132 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6134 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6135 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6136 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6140 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6142 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6143 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6144 have done.) (#17598)
6146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6148 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6150 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6154 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6156 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6160 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6162 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6163 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6167 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6169 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6170 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6171 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6175 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6177 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6178 argument processor in perl.
6179 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6180 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6181 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6182 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6186 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6188 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6189 type directories. (#16933)
6190 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6191 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6192 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6193 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6194 are supported. (#16935)
6195 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6200 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6202 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6203 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6207 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6209 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6211 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6212 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6213 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6214 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6215 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6216 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6220 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6222 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6223 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6224 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6226 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6227 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6228 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6229 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6230 a given package, or -i or -a.
6231 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6232 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6233 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6234 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6235 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6236 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6237 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6238 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6239 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6241 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6242 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6243 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6247 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6249 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6250 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6251 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6256 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6258 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6259 does not have a section.
6261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6263 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6265 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6266 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6267 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6268 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6272 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6274 * Fixed typo #16215.
6276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6278 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6280 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6281 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6282 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6283 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6284 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6285 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6290 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6292 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6293 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6294 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6295 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6306 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6308 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6312 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6314 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6315 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6316 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6317 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6318 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6319 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6320 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6330 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6332 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6333 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6337 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6339 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6340 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6341 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6342 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6346 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6348 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6349 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6353 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6355 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6359 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6361 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6362 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6366 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6368 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6369 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6373 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6375 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6379 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6381 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6382 postinst, postrm, etc.
6384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6386 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6388 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6392 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6394 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6395 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6396 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6397 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6398 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6399 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6403 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6405 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6406 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6407 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6411 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6413 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6414 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6418 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6420 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6421 installing package files into.
6422 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6427 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6429 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6431 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6435 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6437 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6441 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6444 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6448 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6450 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6451 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6452 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6453 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6454 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6458 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6460 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6461 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6462 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6463 multiple binary packages.
6464 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6465 should rebuild them with this version.
6466 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6470 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6472 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6473 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6477 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6479 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6480 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6484 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6486 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6487 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6488 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6489 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6490 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6491 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6492 debian/README.debian.
6493 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6494 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6495 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6496 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6497 in a few situations.)
6499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6501 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6503 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6507 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6509 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6513 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6515 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6516 * Fixed several man pages.
6518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6520 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6522 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6523 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6524 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6528 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6530 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6531 is ready for general use.
6532 * Added man pages for all commands.
6533 * Multiple binary package support.
6534 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6535 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6536 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6538 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6539 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6540 auto-installed as parameters.
6541 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6543 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6546 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6547 the package build directory it is to act on.
6548 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6549 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6550 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6554 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6556 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6557 ready to replace debstd.
6559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400