1 debhelper (7.4.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Patch dh_installinit to handle upstart job files in preference over init
4 scripts, and provide compatibility symlinks in /etc/init.d for sysv-rc
5 implementations. Closes: #536035.
7 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:01:43 -0700
9 debhelper (7.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Optimise -s handling to avoid running dpkg-architecture if a package
12 is arch all. This was, suprisingly, the only overhead of using the -s
13 flag with arch all/any packages.
14 * The -a flag now does the same thing as the -s flag, so debhelper users
15 do not need to worry about using the -s flag when building a package
16 that only builds for some architectures, and dh will also work in that
17 situation. Closes: #540794
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:41:16 -0400
21 debhelper (7.3.16) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_desktop: Clarify in man page why it's a no-op.
25 * dh_installdocs: Loosen the Document field parsing, to accept
26 everything doc-base *really* accepts in a doc id (not just what
27 it's documented to accept). Closes: #543499
28 * Allow sequence addons to pass options to debhelper commands,
29 by adding add_command_options and remove_command_options to the interface.
32 * dh_auto_install: Add a --destdir parameter that can be used to override
33 the default. Closes: #538201
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:10:53 -0400
38 debhelper (7.3.15) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_installudev: Install rules files into new location
42 * dh_installudev: Add code to delete old conffiles unless
43 they're modified, and in that case, rename them to override
44 the corresponding file in /lib/udev. (Based on patch by
45 Martin Pitt.) (Note that this file will not be deleted on purge --
46 I can't see a good way to determine when it's appropriate to do
48 * dh_installudev: Set default priority to 60; dropping the "z".
49 If --priority=zNN is passed, treat that as priority NN.
50 * Above Closes: #491117
51 * dh_installudev: Drop code handling move of /etc/udev/foo into
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:22:08 -0400
56 debhelper (7.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh: Add --list option to list available addons. Closes: #541302
62 * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
63 * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
64 * dh_perl: Remove perl minimum dependency per new policy. Closes: #541811
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:55:48 -0400
68 debhelper (7.3.13) unstable; urgency=low
71 * python_distutils.pm: Support debhelper backports.
72 To allow backports of debhelper we don't pass
73 --install-layout=deb to 'setup.py install` for those Python
74 versions where the option is ignored by distutils/setuptools.
75 Thanks to Julian Andres Klode for the bug report.
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:10:57 -0400
80 debhelper (7.3.12) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh: Allow creation of new sequences (such as to handle a patch
83 target for quilt), by adding an add_command function to the
84 sequence addon interface. See #540124.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:08:53 -0400
88 debhelper (7.3.11) unstable; urgency=low
90 * perl_build: Fix Build check to honor source directory setting.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:52:34 -0400
94 debhelper (7.3.10) unstable; urgency=low
96 * perl_build: Avoid failing if forced to be used in dh_auto_clean
97 when Build does not exist (ie due to being run twice in a row).
99 * dh_builddeb: Fix man page typo. Closes: #539976
100 * dh_installdeb: In udeb mode, support the menutest and isinstallable
101 maintainer scripts. Closes: #540079 Thanks, Colin Watson.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:03:01 -0400
105 debhelper (7.3.9) unstable; urgency=low
107 * cmake: Avoid forcing rpath off as this can break some test suites.
108 It gets stripped by cmake at install time. Closes: #538977
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:59:07 -0400
112 debhelper (7.3.8) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Fix t/override_target to use ./run. Closes: #538315
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:37:45 +0200
118 debhelper (7.3.7) unstable; urgency=low
120 * First upload of buildsystems support to unstable.
121 Summary: Adds --buildsystem (modular, OO buildsystem classes),
122 --sourcedirectory, --builddirectory, and support for cmake
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:47 +0200
127 debhelper (7.3.6) experimental; urgency=low
129 * perl_makemaker: Re-add fix for #496157, lost in rewrite.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:45 +0200
133 debhelper (7.3.5) experimental; urgency=low
136 * python_distutils buildsystem: Build for all supported Python
137 versions that are installed. Ensure that correct shebangs are
138 created by using `python' first during build and install.
140 Also build with python*-dbg if the package build-depends
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:30:22 +0200
145 debhelper (7.3.4) experimental; urgency=low
147 * Merged debhelper 7.2.24.
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:50:37 -0400
151 debhelper (7.3.3) experimental; urgency=low
153 * Add ant buildsystem support. Closes: #537021
154 * Merged debhelper 7.2.22.
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:28 -0400
158 debhelper (7.3.2) experimental; urgency=low
160 * Merged debhelper 7.2.21.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:48 -0400
164 debhelper (7.3.1) experimental; urgency=low
166 * Merged debhelper 7.2.20.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:28:55 -0400
170 debhelper (7.3.0) experimental; urgency=low
172 * Modular object oriented dh_auto_* buildsystem support,
173 contributed by Modestas Vainius
174 - dh_auto_* --sourcedirectory can now be used to specify a source
175 directory if sources and/or the whole buildsystem lives elsewhere
176 than the top level directory. Closes: #530597
177 - dh_auto_* --builddirectory can now be used to specify a build
178 directory to use for out of source building, for build systems
179 that support it. Closes: #480577
180 - dh_auto_* --buildsystem can now be used to override the autodetected
181 build system, or force use of a third-party class.
182 - dh_auto_* --list can be used to list available and selected build
184 - Adds support for cmake.
185 - For the perl_build build system, Build is used consistently
186 instead of falling back to using the generated Makefile.
188 - Historical dh_auto_* behavior should be preserved despite these
190 * Move two more command-specific options to only be accepted by the commands
191 that use them. The options are:
192 --sourcedir, --destdir
193 If any third-party debhelper commands use either of the above options,
194 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
195 * Make dh not complain about unknown, command-specific options passed to it,
196 and further suppress warnings about such options it passes on to debhelper
197 commands. This was attempted incompletely before in version 7.2.17.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:31:20 -0400
201 debhelper (7.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_install: Add test suite covering the last 5 bugs.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:42:18 -0400
207 debhelper (7.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where debian/tmp is
210 explicitly specified in filename paths despite being searched by
211 default. Closes: #537140
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:24:19 -0400
215 debhelper (7.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_install: Fix support for the case where --sourcedir=debian/tmp/foo
218 is used. Perl was not being greedy enough and the 'foo' was not stripped
219 from the destination directory in this unusual case. Closes: #537017
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:25 -0400
223 debhelper (7.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Add a versioned dep on perl-base, to get a version that supports
226 GetOptionsFromArray. Closes: #536310
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:08:45 -0400
230 debhelper (7.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_install: Fix installation of entire top-level directory
233 from debian/tmp. Closes: #535367
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:17:42 -0400
237 debhelper (7.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_install: Handle correctly the case where a glob expands to
240 a dangling symlink, installing the dangling link as requested.
242 * dh_install: Fix fallback use of debian/tmp in v7 mode; a bug caused
243 it to put files inside a debian/tmp directory in the package build
244 directory, now that prefix is stripped. (See #534565)
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:56:52 -0400
248 debhelper (7.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_shlibdeps: Ensure DEBIAN directory exists, as dpkg-shlibdeps
251 prints a confusing warning if it does not. Closes: #534226
252 * dh_auto_install: Pass --install-layout=deb to setup.py
253 to support python 2.6. Closes: #534620
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:35:40 -0400
257 debhelper (7.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Allow command-specific options to be passed to commands
260 via dh without causing other commands to emit a getopt
261 warning or deprecation message.
262 * dh_installinfo: No longer inserts install-info calls into
263 maintainer scripts, as that is now triggerized. Adds a dependency
264 via misc:Depends to handle partial upgrades. Note that while
265 dh_installinfo already required that info files had a INFO-DIR-SECTION,
266 the new system also requires they have START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY and
267 END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY for proper registration. I assume there will be
268 some mass bug filing for any packages that do not have that.
269 Closes: #534639, #357434
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:02:51 -0400
273 debhelper (7.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_gconf: Add missed half of postrm fragment removal. Closes: #531035
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:50:33 -0400
279 debhelper (7.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
281 * dh_strip, dh_shlibdeps: Add support for OCaml shared libraries.
282 (Stephane Glondu) Closes: #527272, #532701
283 * dh_compress: Avoid compressing .svg and .sgvz files, since these
284 might be used as images on a html page, and also to avoid needing
285 to special case the .svgz extension when compressing svg.
287 * dh_scrollkeeper: Now a deprecated no-op. Closes: #530806
288 * dh_gconf: Remove postrm fragment that handled schema migration
289 from /etc to /usr. Closes: #531035
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:14:07 -0400
293 debhelper (7.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh: Avoid writing log after override_dh_clean is run. Closes: #529228
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 May 2009 12:49:32 -0400
299 debhelper (7.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_auto_configure: Pass --skipdeps safely via PERL_AUTOINSTALL.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 15:21:21 -0400
306 debhelper (7.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_auto_configure: Revert --skipdeps change
309 Closes: #528647, reopens: #528235
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 2009 14:15:26 -0400
313 debhelper (7.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh: Support --with addon,addon,...
317 * dh_auto_configure: Add --skipdeps when running Makefile.PL,
318 to prevent Module::Install from trying to download dependencies.
320 * Support debian/foo.os files to suppliment previous debian/foo.arch
321 file support. Closes: #494914
322 (Thanks, Aurelien Jarno)
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:18 -0400
326 debhelper (7.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Close COMPAT_IN filehandle. Closes: #527464
329 * dh_auto_configure: Clarify man page re adding configure
330 parameters. Closes: #527256
331 * dh_auto_configure: Pass packlist=0 when running Makefile.PL,
332 in case it is a Build.PL passthru, to avoid it creating
333 the .packlist file. Closes: #527990
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 May 2009 13:07:08 -0400
337 debhelper (7.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_fixperms: Ensure lintian overrides are mode 644.
341 * dh_fixperms: Fix permissions of OCaml .cmxs files. Closes: #526221
342 * dh: Add --without to allow disabling sequence addons (particularly
343 useful to disable the default python-support addon).
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 04 May 2009 14:46:53 -0400
347 debhelper (7.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
349 * dh_desktop: Now a deprecated no-op, since desktop-file-utils
350 uses triggers. Closes: #523474
351 (also Closes: #521960, #407701 as no longer applicable)
352 * Move dh sequence documentation to PROGRAMMING.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:15:32 -0400
356 debhelper (7.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Fix calling the same helper for separate packages in the override of dh
359 binary-indep/binary-arch. Closes: #520567
360 * Add --remaining-packages option (Modestas Vainius)
362 * Pass -L UTF-8 to po4a to work around bug #520942
363 * dh_icons: ignore gnome and hicolor themes (will be handled
364 by triggers). Closes: #521181
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:15:29 -0400
368 debhelper (7.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Examples files updated to add dh_bugfiles, remove obsolete
372 * dh_auto_test: Support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nocheck. Closes: #519374
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:54:48 -0400
376 debhelper (7.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Set MODULEBUILDRC=/dev/null when running perl Build scripts
379 to avoid ~/.modulebuildrc influencing the build. Closes: #517423
380 * dh_installmenus: Revert removal of update-menus calls. Closes: #518919
381 Menu refuses to add unconfigured packages to the menu, and thus
382 omits packages when triggered, unfortunatly. I hope its behavior will
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:20:41 -0400
387 debhelper (7.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix --add-udeb, for real. Closes: #518706
391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:14:30 -0400
393 debhelper (7.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
395 * dh_installmenus: Now that a triggers capable menu and dpkg are in
396 stable, menu does not need to be explicitly run in maintainer
397 scripts, except for packages with menu-methods files. (See #473467)
398 * dh_installdocs: No longer add maintainer script code to call
399 doc-base, as it supports triggers in stable.
400 * dh_bugfiles: New program, contributed by Modestas Vainius.
402 * dh: Override LC_ALL, not LANG. re-Closes: #517617
403 * dh_installchangelogs: Support -X to exclude automatic installation
404 of specific upstream changelogs. re-Closes: #490937
405 * Compat level 4 is now deprecated.
406 * dh_makeshlibs: Re-add --add-udeb support. Closes: #518655
407 * dh_shlibdeps: Remove --add-udeb switch (was accidentially added here).
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:52:20 -0500
411 debhelper (7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_installmodules: Give files in /etc/modprobe.d a .conf
414 syntax, as required by new module-init-tools.
415 * dh_installmodules: Add preinst and postinst code to handle
416 cleanly renaming the modprobe.d files on upgrade.
417 * Two updates to conffile moving code from wiki:
418 - Support case where the conffile name is a substring of another
420 - Support case where dpkg-query says the file is obsolete.
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:33 -0500
424 debhelper (7.2.1) experimental; urgency=low
426 * Merged debhelper 7.0.52.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 20:01:22 -0500
430 debhelper (7.2.0) experimental; urgency=low
432 * Merged debhelper 7.0.50.
433 * dh: Fix typo. Closes: #509754
434 * debhelper.pod: Fix typo. Closes: #510180
435 * dh_gconf: Support mandatory settings. Closes: #513923
436 * Improve error messages when child commands fail.
437 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.19, the first to support Package-Type
438 fields in dpkg-gencontrol.
439 * dh_gencontrol: No longer need to generate the udeb filename
440 when calling dpkg-gencontrol.
441 * dh_gencontrol: Do not need to tell dpkg-gencontol not to
442 include the Homepage field in udebs (fixed in dpkg-dev 1.14.17).
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:33:44 -0500
446 debhelper (7.1.1) experimental; urgency=low
448 * dh_install(1): Order options alphabetically. Closes:# 503896
449 * Fix some docs that refered to --srcdir rather than --sourcedir.
451 * Add Vcs-Browser field. Closes: #507804
452 * Ignore unknown options in DH_OPTIONS. Debhelper will always ignore
453 such options, even when unknown command-line options are converted back
454 to an error. This allows (ab)using DH_OPTIONS to pass command-specific
456 (Note that getopt will warn about such unknown options. Eliminating this
457 warning without reimplementing much of Getopt::Long wasn't practical.)
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:19:27 -0500
461 debhelper (7.1.0) experimental; urgency=low
463 * dh_installchangelogs: Fall back to looking for changelog files ending
464 with ".txt". Closes: #498460
465 * dh_gencontrol: Ensure misc:Depends is set in substvars to avoid dpkg
466 complaining about it when it's empty. Closes: #498666
467 * dh: Fix typo in example. Closes: #500836
468 * Allow individual debhelper programs to define their own special options
469 by passing a hash to init(), which is later passed on the Getopt::Long.
471 * Move many command-specific options to only be accepted by the command
472 that uses them. Affected options are:
473 -x, -r, -R, -l, -L, -m,
474 --include-conffiles, --no-restart-on-upgrade, --no-start,
475 --restart-after-upgrade, --init-script, --filename, --flavor, --autodest,
476 --libpackage, --add-udeb, --dpkg-shlibdeps-params,
477 --dpkg-gencontrol-params, --update-rcd-params, --major, --remove-d,
478 --dirs-only, --keep-debug, --version-info, --list-missing, --fail-missing,
479 --language, --until, --after, --before, --remaining, --with
480 * If any third-party debhelper commands use any of the above options,
481 they will be broken, and need to be changed to pass options to init().
482 * To avoid breaking rules files that pass options to commands that do not
483 use them, debhelper will now only warn if it encounters an unknown
484 option. This will be converted back to an error later.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:58:00 -0400
488 debhelper (7.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh: Fix make parsing to not be broken by locale settings.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:34 -0500
495 debhelper (7.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh: Man page typos. Closes: #517549, #517550
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:23:30 -0500
501 debhelper (7.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
503 * This release is designed to be easily backportable to stable,
504 to support the new style of rules file that I expect many packages will
506 * dh: debian/rules override targets can change what is run
507 for a specific debhelper command in a sequence.
508 (Thanks Modestas Vainius for the improved makefile parser.)
509 * dh: Redid all the examples to use override targets, since these
510 eliminate all annoying boilerplate and are much easier to understand
512 * Remove rules.simple example, there's little need to use explicit targets
514 * dh: Support debian/rules calling make with -B,
515 which is useful to avoid issues with phony implicit
516 rules (see bug #509756).
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:25:52 -0500
520 debhelper (7.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_auto_install: Fix man page, was referring to dh_auto_clean.
526 * dh_gencontrol: Drop the Homepage field from udebs. Closes: #492719
527 * Typo. Closes: #493062
528 * dh_auto_install: Improve check for MakeMaker, to avoid passing PREFIX
529 if the Makefile was generated by Module::Build::Compat. Closes: #496157
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:30:12 -0400
533 debhelper (7.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh: Avoid passing --with on to subcommands. Closes: #490886
536 * dh_installchangelogs: When searching for changelog in v7 mode, skip
537 empty files. Closes: #490937
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:34:13 -0400
541 debhelper (7.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_clean: Do not delete *-stamp files in -k mode in v7. Closes: #489918
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:11 -0400
547 debhelper (7.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Load python-support sequence file first, to allow ones loaded later to
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:23:32 -0400
554 debhelper (7.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_auto_install: Rather than looking at the number of binary packages
557 being acted on, look at the total number of binary packages in the
558 source package when deciding whether to install to debian/package or
559 debian/tmp. This avoids inconsistencies when building mixed arch all+any
560 packages using the binary-indep and binary-arch targets.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:27:02 -0400
565 debhelper (7.0.12) unstable; urgency=medium
567 * Correct docs about dh_install and debian/tmp in v7 mode. It first looks in
568 the current directory, or whatever is configured with --srcdir. Then it
569 always falls back to looking in debian/tmp.
570 * Medium urgency to get this doc fix into testing.
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:36:50 -0400
574 debhelper (7.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh: Man page fix. Closes: #485116
577 * Add stamp files to example rules targets. Closes: #486327
578 * Add a build dependency on file. The rules file now runs dh_strip and
579 dh_shlibdeps, which both use it. (It could be changed not to, but
580 it's good to have it run all the commands as a test.) Closes: #486439
581 * Typo fix. Closes: #486464
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:39:21 -0400
585 debhelper (7.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_compress: Do not compress index.sgml files, as generated by gtk-doc.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:48:39 -0400
592 debhelper (7.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
594 * rules.tiny: Typo fix. Closes: #479647
595 * dh_installinit: Add --restart-after-upgrade, which avoids stopping a
596 daemon in the prerm, and instead restarts it in the postinst, keeping
597 its downtime minimal. Since some daemons could break if files are upgraded
598 while they're running, it's not the default. It might become the default
599 in a future (v8) compatibility level. Closes: #471060
600 * dh: fix POD error. Closes: #480191
601 * dh: Typo fixes. Closes: #480200
602 * dh: Add remove_command to the sequence interface.
603 * dh_auto_clean: setup.py clean can create pyc files. Remove. Closes: #481899
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 May 2008 12:47:47 -0400
607 debhelper (7.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
609 * dh: Add an interface that third-party packages providing debhelper commands
610 can use to insert them into a command sequence.
611 (See dh(1), "SEQUENCE ADDONS".)
612 * dh: --with=foo can be used to include such third-party commands.
613 So, for example, --with=cli could add the dh_cli* commands from
615 * Moved python-support special case out of dh and into a python-support
616 sequence addon. --with=python-support is enabled by default to avoid
617 breaking backwards compatability.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 16:10:54 -0400
621 debhelper (7.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_installxfonts: Fix precidence problem that exposes a new warning
624 message in perl 5.10.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:41 -0400
628 debhelper (7.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_auto_test: Correct Module::Build tests.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 03 May 2008 12:58:50 -0400
634 debhelper (7.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Convert copyright file to new format.
637 * dh_test*: inhibit logging. Closes: #478958
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 01 May 2008 19:52:00 -0400
641 debhelper (7.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Fix underescaped $ in Makefile. Closes: #478475
644 * dh_auto_test: Run tests for Module::Build packages. (Florian Ragwitz)
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:17:01 -0400
648 debhelper (7.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh: Fix man page typos. Closes: #477933
651 * Add missing $! to error message when the log can't be opened.
652 * One problem with the log files is that if dh_clean is not the last command
653 run, they will be left behind. This is a particular problem on build
654 daemons that use real root. Especially if cdbs is used, since it runs
655 dh_listpackages after clean, thereby leaving behind log files that
656 only root can touch. Avoid this particular special case by inhibiting
657 logging by dh_listpackages.
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:40:03 -0400
661 debhelper (7.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh: Optimise the case where the binary-arch or binary-indep sequence is
664 run and there are no packages of that type.
665 * dh_auto_configure: Set PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT when configuring MakeMaker
666 packages to avoid interactive prompts.
667 * dh_auto_*: Also support packages using Module::Build.
668 * dh_auto_*: Fix some calls to setup.py. Now tested and working with
670 * dh_install: Find all possible cases of "changelog" and "changes", rather
671 than just looking for some predefined common cases.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:55:49 -0400
675 debhelper (7.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
677 * I lied, one more v7 change slipped in..
678 * dh_installchangelogs: In v7 mode, if no upstream changelog is specified,
679 and the package is not native, guess at a few common changelog filenames.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:16:19 -0400
683 debhelper (7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh: New program that runs a series of debhelper commands in a sequence.
686 This can be used to construct very short rules files (as short as 3
687 lines), while still exposing the full power of debhelper when it's
689 * dh_auto_configure: New program, automates running ./configure,
690 Makefile.PL, and python distutils. Calls them with exactly the same
691 options as cdbs does by default, and allows adding/overriding options.
692 * dh_auto_build: New program, automates building the package by either
693 running make or using setup.py. (Support for cmake and other build systems
694 planned but not yet implemented.)
695 * dh_auto_test: New program, automates running make test or make check
696 if the Makefile has such a target.
697 * dh_auto_clean: New program, automates running make clean (or distclean,
698 or realclean), or using setup.py to clean up.
699 * dh_auto_install: New program, automates running make install, or using
700 setup.py to install. Supports the PREFIX=/usr special case needed by
701 MakeMaker Makefiles. (Support for cmake and other build systems planned
702 but not yet implemented.)
703 * New v7 mode, which only has three changes from v6, and is the new
704 recommended default, especially when using dh.
705 * dh_install: In v7 mode, if --sourcedir is not specified, first look for
706 files in debian/tmp, and then will look in the current directory. This
707 allows dh_install to interoperate with dh_auto_install without needing any
709 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, read debian/clean and delete all files listed
711 * dh_clean: In v7 mode, automatically delete *-stamp files.
712 * Add a Makefile and simplify this package's own rules file using
714 * dh_clean: Don't delete core dumps. (Too DWIM, and "core" is not
715 necessarily a core dump.) Closes: #477391
716 * dh_prep: New program, does the same as dh_clean -k (which will be
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:14:57 -0400
721 debhelper (6.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_icons: Support .xpm format icons. Stop looking for .jpg icons, and
724 also, for completeness, support .icon files. This matches the set of
725 extensions supported by gtk-update-icon-cache. Closes: #448094
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:43:31 -0400
729 debhelper (6.0.11) unstable; urgency=medium
731 * dh_installman: man --recode transparently uncompresses compressed
732 pages. So when saving the output back, save it to a non-compressed
733 filename (and delete the original, compressed file). Closes: #470913
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:12 -0400
737 debhelper (6.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_perl: Remove empty directories created by MakeMaker.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:11:57 -0400
743 debhelper (6.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_installman: Don't recode symlinks. Closes: #471196
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:53:39 -0400
749 debhelper (6.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_installman: Convert all man pages in the build directory to utf-8, not
752 just those installed by the program.
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:25 -0400
756 debhelper (6.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_lintian: Finally added this since linda is gone and there's only
759 lintian to worry about supporting. Closes: #109642, #166320, #206765
760 (Thanks to Steve M. Robbins for the initial implementation.)
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:55:46 -0500
764 debhelper (6.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_compress: Pass -n to gzip to yeild more reproducible file contents.
767 The time stamp information need not be contained in the .gz file since the
768 time stamp is preserved when compressing and decompressing. Closes: #467100
769 * The order of dependencies generated by debhelper has been completly random
770 (hash key order), so sort it. Closes: #468959
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:35:21 -0500
774 debhelper (6.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installman: Recode all man pages to utf-8 on installation.
777 Closes: #462937 (Colin Watson)
778 * Depend on a new enough version of man-db.
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:43:10 -0500
782 debhelper (6.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
784 * dh_strip: Improve the idempotency fix put in for #380314.
785 * dh_strip: The -k flag didn't work (--keep did). Fix.
786 * dh_shlibdeps: Add emul to exclude list.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:32:27 -0500
790 debhelper (6.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_link: -X can be used to avoid it modifying symlinks to be compliant
793 with policy. Closes: #461392
794 * dh_shlibdeps: Rather than skipping everything in /usr/lib/debug,
795 which can include debug libraries that dpkg-shlibdeps should look at,
796 only skip the subdirectories of it that contain separate debugging
797 symbols. (Hardcoding the names of those directories is not the best
798 implementation, but it will do for now.) Closes: #461339
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:27:59 -0500
802 debhelper (6.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Revert slightly broken refactoring of some exclude code.
805 Closes: #460340, #460351
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:31:15 -0500
809 debhelper (6.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_installdocs/examples: Don't unnecessarily use the exclude code path.
812 * dh_install{,docs,examples}: Avoid infinite recursion when told to
813 install a directory ending with "/." (slashdot effect?) when exclusion is
814 enabled. Emulate the behavior of cp in this case. Closes: #253234
815 * dh_install: Fix #459426 here too.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:15:56 -0500
819 debhelper (6.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
822 * dh_shlibdeps: Update documentation for -L and -l. dpkg-shlibdeps is now
823 much smarter, and these options are almost never needed. Closes: #459226
824 * dh_shlibdeps: If a relative path is specified in -l, don't prepend the pwd
825 to it, instead just prepend a slash to make it absolute. dpkg-shlibdeps
826 has changed how it used LD_LIBRARY_PATH, so making it point into the
827 package build directory won't work.
828 * dh_shlibdeps: Change "-L pkg" to cause "-Sdebian/pkg" to be passed to
829 dpkg-shlibdeps. The old behavior of passing -L to dpkg-shlibdeps didn't
830 affect where it looked for symbols files. Closes: #459224
831 * Depend on dpkg-dev 1.14.15, the first to support dpkg-shlibdeps -S.
832 * dh_installdocs, dh_installexamples: Support files with spaces in exclude
833 mode. Closes: #459426
834 * debhelper v6 mode is finalised and is the new recommended compatibility
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:12:36 -0500
839 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
841 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
842 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
846 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
850 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
851 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
852 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
853 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
854 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
855 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
859 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
861 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
862 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
863 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
864 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
865 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
869 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
872 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
873 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
874 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
875 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
876 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
880 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
883 debian/package.triggers files.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
887 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
890 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
894 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
897 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
898 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
899 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
900 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
905 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
908 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
912 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
915 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
916 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
918 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
923 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
927 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
928 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
929 * Typo. Closes: #441272
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
933 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
940 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
947 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
950 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
952 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
953 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
954 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
956 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
957 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
958 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
962 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
965 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
966 * Update urls to web page.
967 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
969 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
970 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
974 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
977 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
978 - typo in alternatives call
979 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
981 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
982 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
986 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
989 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
994 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
1000 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
1006 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
1009 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
1011 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
1012 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
1013 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
1014 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
1015 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
1016 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
1017 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
1018 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
1019 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
1020 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
1021 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
1025 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
1028 package install. Closes: #415717
1029 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
1030 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
1031 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
1032 script and then remove the python files.
1033 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
1034 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
1035 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
1036 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
1037 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
1038 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
1039 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
1040 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
1041 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
1042 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
1043 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
1044 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
1045 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
1049 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Correct typo in french translation
1055 * Typo. Closes: #400571
1056 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
1058 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
1060 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
1061 Closes: #406921, #381940
1062 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
1064 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
1065 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
1066 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
1067 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
1068 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
1069 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
1070 specified). Closes: #381851
1071 * Misc minor changes.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
1075 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
1082 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
1083 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
1087 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
1093 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
1094 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
1097 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
1098 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
1100 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
1101 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
1102 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
1103 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
1107 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
1110 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
1113 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
1117 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
1123 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
1129 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
1130 a difficult situation.
1131 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
1132 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
1133 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
1134 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
1135 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
1136 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
1137 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
1138 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
1139 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
1140 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
1144 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Non-maintainer upload.
1147 * Update of dh_python
1148 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
1149 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
1151 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
1152 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
1153 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
1154 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
1155 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
1157 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
1159 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Non-maintainer upload.
1162 * Update of dh_python
1163 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
1164 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
1165 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
1166 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
1167 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
1168 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
1169 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
1170 specific python version. Closes: #373853
1171 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
1172 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
1174 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
1175 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
1176 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
1177 the not too-distant future).
1178 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
1179 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
1180 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
1181 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
1182 thus made the build fail.
1184 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
1186 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Non-maintainer upload.
1189 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
1191 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
1193 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
1196 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
1197 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
1198 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
1199 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
1200 package. Closes: #301424
1201 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
1202 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
1203 fonts). Closes: #372686
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
1207 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1213 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
1214 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
1215 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
1216 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
1217 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
1218 above, but already depends on that.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
1222 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
1225 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
1226 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
1227 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
1228 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
1229 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
1233 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
1239 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
1245 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
1246 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
1250 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
1253 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
1257 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
1261 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
1262 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
1263 new version (0.24.1).
1264 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
1265 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
1268 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
1269 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
1270 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
1271 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
1272 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
1273 new directory on their own.
1274 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
1275 * Fix broken directory removal code.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
1279 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
1282 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
1283 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
1284 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
1285 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
1289 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
1292 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
1293 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
1294 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
1295 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
1296 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
1300 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
1306 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Typo. Closes: #358904
1310 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
1311 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
1315 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1316 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
1320 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
1322 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
1323 || exit 0 instead of the intended
1325 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
1326 ignored. Closes: #337664
1328 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
1333 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
1339 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
1344 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
1345 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
1346 the dh_installdebconf manpage
1347 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
1348 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
1349 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
1350 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
1354 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
1357 version. Closes: #350607
1358 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
1359 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
1360 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
1361 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
1365 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
1368 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
1369 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
1370 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
1374 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
1381 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Minor bug fix from last release.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
1387 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
1390 language guessing. Closes: #193221
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
1394 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
1397 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
1398 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
1399 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
1400 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
1401 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
1402 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
1406 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
1409 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
1410 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
1415 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
1418 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
1422 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
1425 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
1429 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
1432 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
1433 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
1434 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
1435 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
1436 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
1437 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
1441 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
1445 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
1446 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
1447 link. Closes: #346405
1448 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
1450 [ Josselin Mouette ]
1451 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
1452 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
1453 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
1454 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
1455 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
1456 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
1460 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
1467 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
1473 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
1476 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
1480 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
1483 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
1488 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
1492 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
1493 installed. Closes: #342033
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
1497 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
1500 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
1501 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
1502 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
1507 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
1513 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
1519 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
1523 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
1524 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
1525 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
1529 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
1532 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
1537 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
1544 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
1550 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
1553 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
1554 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
1555 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
1556 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
1557 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
1558 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
1559 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
1561 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
1565 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
1568 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
1569 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
1573 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
1576 in standard man dirs.
1577 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
1581 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
1587 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
1590 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
1595 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
1602 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
1609 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
1612 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
1613 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
1617 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * NMU with maintainer approval.
1620 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
1621 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
1622 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
1624 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
1626 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
1632 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
1638 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
1641 mode. Closes: #324161
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
1645 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
1648 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
1649 behavior change. Closes: #249815
1650 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
1651 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
1656 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
1659 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
1660 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
1661 is necesary for sanity.
1662 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
1663 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
1668 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
1670 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
1671 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
1675 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
1678 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
1682 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
1688 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
1691 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
1692 released, so use at your own risk.
1693 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
1694 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
1696 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
1697 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
1698 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
1699 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
1700 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
1701 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
1702 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
1703 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
1704 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
1705 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
1706 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
1707 including twice per config file line now..
1708 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
1709 and simplfy the rules file.
1710 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
1711 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
1712 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
1714 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
1715 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
1719 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
1722 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
1726 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
1729 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
1733 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
1736 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
1740 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
1743 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
1744 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
1745 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
1746 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
1747 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
1748 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
1752 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
1755 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
1756 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
1757 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
1762 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
1765 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
1766 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
1771 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
1774 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
1775 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
1776 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
1781 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
1784 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
1785 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
1786 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
1790 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
1796 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
1803 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
1806 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
1807 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
1808 unknown. Closes: #282924
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
1812 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
1819 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Spanish man page updates.
1822 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
1827 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1833 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1836 * dh_desktop: reindent
1837 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1838 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1842 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1848 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1850 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1854 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1856 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1860 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1863 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1864 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1868 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1874 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1880 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1887 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1890 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1897 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1898 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1899 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1900 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1901 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1902 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1904 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1905 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1906 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1907 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1908 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1909 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1910 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1911 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1912 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1913 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1914 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1915 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1916 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1917 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1918 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1919 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1923 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1933 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1937 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1940 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1947 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1951 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1954 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1958 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1964 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1970 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1976 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1979 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1980 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1981 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1985 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1988 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1992 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1995 but occasionally right and necessary.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1999 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
2002 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
2003 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
2004 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
2005 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
2006 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
2010 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
2013 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
2015 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
2016 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
2017 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
2018 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
2019 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
2020 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
2021 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
2022 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
2023 postinst scripts for udebs.
2024 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
2028 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
2031 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
2033 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
2034 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
2038 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
2044 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
2051 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
2058 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
2061 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
2065 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
2068 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
2072 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
2075 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
2078 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
2079 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
2083 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
2089 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
2092 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
2096 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
2099 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
2100 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
2101 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
2103 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
2105 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
2106 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
2107 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
2111 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
2114 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
2119 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
2122 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
2123 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
2124 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
2129 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
2135 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
2141 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
2144 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
2145 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
2146 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
2147 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
2148 associated -dbg packages.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
2152 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
2155 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
2159 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
2162 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
2166 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
2169 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
2173 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
2176 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
2181 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * Typo. Closes: #207999
2184 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
2188 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
2191 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
2196 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
2199 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
2203 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
2207 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
2208 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
2209 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
2210 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
2211 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
2212 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
2213 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
2214 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
2215 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
2216 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
2220 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
2223 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
2228 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
2231 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
2232 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
2236 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
2239 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
2240 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
2245 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
2248 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
2252 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
2255 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
2259 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
2262 out section number. Closes: #204731
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
2266 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
2273 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
2279 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
2285 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Typo, Closes: #203907
2288 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
2289 removal. Closes: #204286
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
2293 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
2296 renaming. Closes: #203548
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
2300 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
2303 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
2304 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
2308 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
2314 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
2320 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
2326 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
2329 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
2330 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
2331 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
2335 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
2338 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
2339 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
2343 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
2349 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
2356 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
2359 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
2364 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
2367 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
2371 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
2374 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
2376 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
2377 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
2381 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
2384 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
2389 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
2392 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
2396 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
2402 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
2404 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
2408 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
2411 it break hard links (see #188663).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
2415 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
2418 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
2422 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
2428 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
2432 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
2433 debconf-mergetemplates
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
2437 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
2440 pod2man. Closes: #184013
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
2444 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
2447 * Typo, Closes: #183267
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
2451 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
2454 * Update debhelper(1).
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
2458 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
2461 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
2462 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
2463 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
2464 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
2465 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
2469 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
2472 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
2473 the shell. Closes: #178524
2474 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
2478 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
2481 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
2485 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
2488 undocumented.7 links anymore.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
2492 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
2495 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
2496 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
2497 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
2498 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
2503 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
2506 files from installation.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
2510 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
2513 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
2514 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
2518 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
2521 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
2525 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
2528 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
2532 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
2538 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
2544 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
2548 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
2549 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
2551 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
2555 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
2558 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
2559 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
2560 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
2561 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
2565 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
2568 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
2570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
2572 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2574 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
2575 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
2576 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
2580 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
2584 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
2589 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
2595 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
2599 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
2600 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
2601 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
2606 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
2609 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
2610 practice. Closes: #163303
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
2614 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
2620 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
2627 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * The "reverse hangover" release.
2630 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
2632 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
2633 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
2634 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
2635 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
2636 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
2640 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
2643 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
2648 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
2654 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
2661 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
2664 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
2669 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
2675 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
2681 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
2687 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
2692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
2694 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2696 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
2697 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
2698 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
2699 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
2700 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
2705 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Typo, Closes: #155323
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
2711 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
2718 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
2721 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
2722 * Removed dh_installxaw.
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
2726 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
2729 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
2730 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
2731 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
2732 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
2733 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
2737 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
2740 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
2742 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
2747 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
2750 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
2754 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
2757 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
2758 right thing. Closes: #150644
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
2762 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Stupid, evil typo.
2765 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
2769 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
2776 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
2779 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
2780 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
2785 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
2791 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
2794 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
2798 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
2801 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
2802 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
2807 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
2810 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
2814 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
2820 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
2823 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
2824 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
2828 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2834 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Removing perl warning message.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2840 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2843 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2844 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2845 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2846 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2847 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2848 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2849 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2850 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2854 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2860 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2867 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2870 debconf-mergetemplate.
2871 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2872 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2876 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2879 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2880 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2881 dh_install, which ...
2882 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2883 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2884 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2885 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2886 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2887 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2888 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2889 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2890 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2891 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2892 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2893 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2894 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2895 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2896 other minor changes.
2897 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2898 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2899 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2900 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2901 course there's -X ..)
2902 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2903 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2904 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2906 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2907 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2908 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2909 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2910 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2915 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2921 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2924 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2928 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2934 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2940 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2946 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2952 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2955 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2956 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2957 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2958 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2960 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2961 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2965 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2971 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2974 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2978 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2981 upset. Closes: #131322
2983 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2985 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2988 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2989 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2990 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2991 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2992 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2993 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2994 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2995 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2996 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2997 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2998 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2999 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
3000 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
3001 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
3002 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
3004 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
3008 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
3011 - Better indenting of generated code.
3012 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
3016 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
3020 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
3021 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
3022 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
3023 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
3024 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
3025 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
3026 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
3030 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
3033 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
3037 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
3040 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
3041 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
3042 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
3043 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
3044 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
3045 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
3046 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
3047 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
3048 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
3049 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
3050 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
3051 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
3052 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
3053 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
3054 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
3059 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
3065 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
3068 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
3069 * fixed dh_testdir man page
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
3073 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Typo, Closes: #122679
3076 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
3077 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
3081 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
3087 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
3090 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
3091 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
3092 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
3093 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
3094 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
3099 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
3105 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
3108 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
3112 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
3115 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
3120 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Typo, Closes: #114135
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
3126 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
3129 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
3133 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
3139 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
3143 Also some indentation fixes.
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
3147 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
3150 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
3151 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
3152 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
3153 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
3154 Closes: #106514, #85520
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
3158 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Typo, Closes: #104405
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
3164 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
3170 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
3176 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
3182 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
3188 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
3191 change it in debhelper v4..
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
3195 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
3201 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
3204 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
3208 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
3211 is not essential. Closes: #100430
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
3215 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
3221 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
3224 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
3225 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
3226 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
3227 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
3228 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
3229 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
3230 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
3231 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
3232 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
3233 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
3234 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
3235 prefixed with ".debhelper")
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
3239 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
3242 look just like shared libs, but are not.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
3246 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
3253 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
3256 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
3257 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
3258 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
3259 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
3260 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
3261 program those options go to. So, for example,
3262 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
3263 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
3264 something complex. Closes: #89311
3265 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
3269 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
3272 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
3273 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
3274 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
3278 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
3281 through loop. Closes: #98598
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
3285 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Missing semi-colon.
3288 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
3289 this (dh_* should be called, really).
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
3293 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
3296 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
3297 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
3298 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
3302 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
3305 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
3306 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
3310 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
3313 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
3317 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
3320 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
3321 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
3325 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
3328 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
3329 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
3330 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
3334 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
3337 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
3338 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
3339 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
3343 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
3346 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
3350 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
3356 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Typo, Closes: #92407
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
3362 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
3368 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
3374 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
3377 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
3381 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
3384 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
3385 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
3386 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
3387 followed. Closes: #85483
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
3391 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3393 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
3394 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
3395 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
3399 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
3402 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
3403 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
3404 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
3405 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
3406 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
3407 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
3408 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
3409 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
3410 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
3411 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
3412 Closes: #88464, #77743
3413 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
3414 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
3415 us to deal with that gracefully.
3416 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
3418 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
3419 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
3420 a while, Closes: #51225
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
3424 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
3430 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3432 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
3433 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
3437 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
3441 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
3446 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
3449 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
3450 don't make packlist files.
3451 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
3452 debhelper coding standards.
3453 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
3454 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
3458 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
3461 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
3465 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
3468 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
3469 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
3470 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
3471 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
3472 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
3473 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
3474 but is mildly deprecated.
3475 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
3476 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
3477 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
3478 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
3479 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
3480 switching to statoverrides..
3481 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
3482 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
3483 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
3484 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
3485 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
3486 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
3488 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
3489 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
3490 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
3491 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
3492 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
3493 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
3494 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
3495 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
3496 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
3498 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
3499 variable names, pod man pages).
3500 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
3501 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
3502 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
3503 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
3504 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
3505 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
3506 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
3510 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
3516 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
3523 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
3526 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
3530 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3532 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
3533 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
3534 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
3538 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
3540 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
3541 they were previously ignored.
3543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
3545 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
3547 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
3548 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
3552 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3554 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
3555 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
3556 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
3560 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
3562 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
3566 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
3568 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
3569 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
3573 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
3575 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
3576 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
3577 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
3578 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
3579 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
3580 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
3581 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
3582 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
3583 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
3584 it is an obsolete program.
3586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
3588 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
3590 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
3594 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
3598 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
3600 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
3604 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
3606 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
3608 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
3610 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
3614 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
3620 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * typo: Closes, #78567
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
3626 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
3632 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
3638 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
3641 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
3642 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
3643 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
3644 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
3645 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
3649 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
3652 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
3657 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
3660 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
3661 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
3662 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
3663 backwards-compatability.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
3667 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
3670 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
3671 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
3672 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
3673 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
3674 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
3675 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
3677 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
3678 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
3679 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
3681 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
3683 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
3684 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
3685 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
3686 should now be raised to severity important..
3687 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
3688 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
3690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
3692 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
3694 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
3695 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
3700 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * Typo, Closes: #77441
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
3706 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Completed the fix from the last version.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
3712 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
3718 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
3725 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
3728 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
3729 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
3730 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
3731 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
3735 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
3741 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
3744 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
3745 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
3746 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
3747 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
3748 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
3749 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
3754 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
3757 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
3761 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
3767 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
3770 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
3775 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
3778 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
3779 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
3780 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
3781 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
3785 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
3789 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
3792 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
3795 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
3796 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
3799 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
3801 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
3802 the TODO entry about it.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
3806 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
3813 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
3816 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
3817 prevent that. Closes: #73052
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
3821 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Typo, Closes: #72932
3824 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
3825 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
3826 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
3827 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
3831 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3837 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3844 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3847 (this appears to be logal).
3849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3851 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3853 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3854 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3855 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3856 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3857 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3861 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3867 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3870 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3871 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3872 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3873 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3877 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3883 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3886 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3890 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3897 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3900 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3901 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3902 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3907 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3914 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3920 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3922 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3923 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3924 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3925 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3926 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3927 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3928 notice until v2 is complete.
3929 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3930 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3931 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3932 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3933 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3934 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3936 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3937 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3938 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3939 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3943 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3949 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3956 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3959 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3963 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3970 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3973 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3974 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3975 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3976 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3981 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3984 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3985 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3986 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3991 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3993 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3994 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3995 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3999 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4001 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
4002 just skip files that end in -\d+.
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
4006 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
4009 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
4011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
4013 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4015 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
4020 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
4023 depend on the build and install targets.
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
4027 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
4030 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
4034 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
4041 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
4045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
4047 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4049 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
4053 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
4056 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
4057 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
4058 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
4059 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
4060 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
4061 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
4063 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
4064 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
4065 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
4066 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
4067 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
4068 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
4069 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
4073 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
4079 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
4085 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
4088 right place. Closes: #55065
4090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
4092 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4094 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
4099 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * Make all examples rules files executable.
4102 * Copyright date updates.
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
4106 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
4109 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
4114 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
4120 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
4127 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4129 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
4133 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
4139 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
4145 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
4148 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
4149 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
4150 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
4151 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
4152 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
4153 bits until all files have been registered.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
4157 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * dh_installmanpages:
4160 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
4161 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
4162 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
4163 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
4164 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
4165 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
4166 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
4167 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
4168 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
4169 otherwise change the result at all.
4171 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
4172 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
4173 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
4174 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
4175 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
4178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
4180 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4182 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
4186 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
4189 act on files that don't exist.
4190 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
4191 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
4192 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
4194 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
4195 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
4196 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
4197 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
4199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
4201 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4203 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
4205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
4207 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4209 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
4211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
4213 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4215 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
4216 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
4220 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
4223 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
4225 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
4226 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
4227 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
4231 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4233 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
4234 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
4235 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
4236 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
4237 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
4238 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
4239 does not compress. Closes: #41733
4240 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
4242 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
4244 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
4248 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
4255 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
4259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
4261 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4263 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
4267 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
4270 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
4272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
4274 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4276 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
4278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
4280 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4282 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
4284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
4286 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4288 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
4289 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
4290 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
4291 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
4292 I made some changes, though:
4293 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
4294 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
4295 that is a clear violation of policy.
4296 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
4297 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
4298 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
4299 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
4300 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
4301 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
4302 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
4303 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
4304 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
4306 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
4310 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
4316 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
4319 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
4323 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
4326 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
4327 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
4332 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
4338 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
4345 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
4348 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
4349 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
4350 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
4351 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
4352 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
4353 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
4354 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
4358 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
4364 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
4368 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
4369 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
4371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
4373 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4375 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
4379 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4381 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
4382 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
4384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
4386 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4388 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
4389 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
4390 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
4394 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
4396 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
4399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
4401 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
4403 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
4405 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
4409 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
4412 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
4413 for the dependancies to be generated.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
4417 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
4420 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
4424 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
4427 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
4428 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
4429 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
4434 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
4437 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
4438 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
4440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
4442 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
4444 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
4448 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
4454 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
4457 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
4461 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
4467 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
4470 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
4471 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
4472 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
4473 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
4474 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
4475 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
4476 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
4477 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
4478 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
4479 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
4480 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
4481 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
4485 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
4488 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
4489 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
4491 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
4492 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
4493 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
4494 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
4495 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
4496 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
4498 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
4499 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
4503 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
4506 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
4510 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
4517 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
4520 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
4523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
4525 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4527 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
4528 for building debhelper.
4529 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
4531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
4533 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4535 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
4538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
4540 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4542 * Fixed makefile commit target.
4543 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
4545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
4547 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4549 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
4550 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
4551 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
4552 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
4553 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
4554 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
4555 it's always available.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
4559 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
4562 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
4563 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
4564 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
4566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
4568 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4570 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
4571 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
4572 modules. (Closes: #42171)
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
4576 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
4580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
4582 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4584 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
4585 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
4587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
4589 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4591 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
4593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
4595 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4597 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
4598 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
4599 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
4600 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
4602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
4604 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4606 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
4607 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
4610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
4612 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4614 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
4615 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
4616 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
4618 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
4619 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
4623 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
4627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
4629 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4631 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
4633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
4635 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4637 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
4638 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
4640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
4642 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
4644 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
4645 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
4646 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
4648 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
4652 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
4655 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
4656 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
4657 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
4659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
4661 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
4663 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
4664 things if CDPATH is set.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
4668 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
4672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
4674 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
4676 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
4677 seems to make sense for the transition.
4679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
4681 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
4683 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
4684 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
4689 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
4692 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
4693 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
4695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
4697 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
4699 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
4700 that version. (Closes: #40589)
4702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
4704 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
4706 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
4707 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
4708 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
4709 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
4710 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
4712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
4714 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
4716 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
4718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
4720 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
4722 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
4723 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
4724 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
4725 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
4726 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
4727 * debhelper.1: documented this.
4728 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
4729 current compatability level is equal to that number.
4730 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
4731 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
4732 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
4737 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
4740 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
4741 * README: mention doc/v2
4742 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
4743 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
4745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
4747 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
4749 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
4750 be using this script RSN.
4752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
4754 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
4756 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
4757 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
4758 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
4759 more than 1 init script.
4761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
4763 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
4765 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
4766 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
4770 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * Changed perl version detection.
4773 * Changed call to find.
4775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
4777 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
4779 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
4780 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
4782 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
4785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
4787 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
4789 * Really include dh_installpam.
4791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
4793 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
4795 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
4796 * Wrote man page for same.
4798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
4800 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
4802 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
4803 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
4804 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
4814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
4816 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
4818 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
4819 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
4820 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
4821 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
4822 x bit was being set!
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
4826 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
4829 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
4830 well. (Closes: 38900)
4832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4834 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4836 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4837 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4838 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4842 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4844 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4848 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4855 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4861 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4863 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4864 help from Julian Gilbey.
4865 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4866 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4867 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4868 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4869 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4870 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4871 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4876 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4878 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4882 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4884 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4889 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4895 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4897 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4901 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4903 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4904 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4908 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4910 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4911 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4915 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4917 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4918 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4922 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4924 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4928 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4930 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4931 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4935 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4937 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4941 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4943 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4947 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4949 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4950 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4951 may be deleted. (#35845)
4953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4955 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4957 * Various man page enhancements.
4958 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4963 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4965 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4966 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4967 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4971 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4973 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4974 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4975 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4976 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4978 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4979 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4984 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4986 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4990 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4992 * Another very minor typo fix.
4994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4996 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4998 * Very minor typo fix.
5000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
5002 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
5004 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
5005 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
5006 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
5008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
5010 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
5012 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
5014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
5016 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
5018 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
5019 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
5020 variables properly (#34850).
5022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
5024 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
5026 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
5028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
5030 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
5032 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
5033 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
5034 (automatically generated by build process).
5036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
5038 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
5040 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
5042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
5044 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
5046 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
5047 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
5048 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
5050 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
5054 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
5057 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
5059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
5061 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
5063 * README: minor typo fix.
5065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
5067 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
5069 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
5070 leave it at that. :-)
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
5074 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
5076 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
5078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
5080 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
5082 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
5084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
5086 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
5088 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
5089 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
5090 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
5091 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
5093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
5095 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
5097 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
5098 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
5100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
5102 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
5104 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
5105 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
5107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
5109 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
5111 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
5112 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
5113 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
5114 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
5115 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
5117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
5119 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
5121 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
5122 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
5123 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
5124 Craig Small for spotting this.
5126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
5128 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
5130 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
5131 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
5132 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
5134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
5136 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
5138 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
5140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
5142 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
5144 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
5145 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
5149 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
5151 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
5152 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
5153 working on the last version of debhelper.
5155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
5157 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
5159 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
5160 being made. (#23255)
5162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
5164 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
5166 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
5168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
5170 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
5172 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
5173 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
5175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
5177 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
5179 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
5180 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
5181 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
5182 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
5183 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
5185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
5187 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
5189 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
5190 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
5191 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
5192 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
5193 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
5195 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
5196 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
5198 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
5201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
5203 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
5205 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
5207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
5209 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
5211 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
5213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
5215 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
5217 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
5218 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
5219 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
5220 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
5221 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
5222 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
5223 suidregister actually supports it.
5224 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
5225 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
5229 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
5234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
5236 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
5238 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
5239 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
5240 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
5241 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
5242 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
5243 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
5244 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
5245 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
5249 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
5251 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
5252 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
5256 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
5259 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
5260 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
5261 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
5262 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
5264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
5266 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
5268 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
5269 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
5271 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
5272 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
5273 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
5274 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
5275 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
5276 effect, either. (#30118)
5278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
5280 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
5282 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
5284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
5286 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
5288 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
5289 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
5290 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
5292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
5294 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
5296 * Spelling and typo fixes.
5298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
5300 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
5302 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
5303 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
5304 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
5305 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
5306 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
5308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
5310 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
5312 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
5313 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
5314 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
5316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
5318 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
5320 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
5322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
5324 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
5326 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
5327 packages, painlessly.
5329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
5331 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
5333 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
5335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
5337 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
5339 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
5341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
5343 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
5345 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
5347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
5349 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
5351 * The perl conversion is complete.
5353 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
5355 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
5356 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
5357 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
5360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
5362 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
5364 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
5365 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
5366 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
5367 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
5369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
5371 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
5373 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
5374 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
5376 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
5378 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
5379 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
5381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
5383 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
5385 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
5386 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
5387 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
5389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
5391 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
5393 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
5395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
5397 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
5399 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
5400 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
5401 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
5402 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
5403 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
5404 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
5406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
5408 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
5410 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
5411 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
5412 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
5413 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
5414 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
5416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
5418 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
5420 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
5421 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
5423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
5425 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
5427 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
5428 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
5429 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
5430 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
5431 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
5432 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
5433 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
5434 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
5435 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
5437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
5439 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
5441 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
5443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
5445 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
5447 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
5448 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
5449 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
5450 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
5455 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
5458 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
5462 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
5465 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
5467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
5469 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
5471 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
5472 sections of shared libraries.
5473 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
5474 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
5475 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
5476 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
5477 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
5478 things you don't want them to.
5479 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
5480 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
5482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
5484 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
5486 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
5487 shared libraries. (#26414)
5489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
5491 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
5493 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
5494 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
5495 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
5496 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
5500 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
5504 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
5506 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
5507 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
5508 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
5509 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
5510 the program to not fail. (#26214)
5512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
5514 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
5516 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
5517 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
5519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
5521 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
5523 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
5524 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
5525 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
5530 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
5533 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
5537 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
5540 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
5541 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
5542 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
5543 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
5544 I apologize for the inconvenience.
5546 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
5547 remove debian/files properly.
5548 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
5549 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
5550 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
5551 * Removed bogus menu file.
5553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
5555 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
5557 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
5558 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
5560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
5562 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
5564 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
5565 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
5566 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
5567 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
5568 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
5569 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
5570 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
5572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
5574 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
5576 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
5577 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
5578 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
5579 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
5580 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
5582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
5584 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
5586 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
5589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
5591 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
5593 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
5594 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
5595 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
5597 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
5598 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
5599 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
5600 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
5601 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
5602 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
5604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
5606 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
5608 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
5609 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
5610 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
5611 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
5612 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
5613 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
5614 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
5615 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
5616 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
5617 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
5618 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
5619 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
5620 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
5621 passed any switches.
5622 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
5624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
5626 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
5628 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
5629 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
5630 at all for a long while.
5631 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
5632 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
5633 large chunks in the process.
5634 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
5635 install many oddly named files it died on before.
5636 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
5639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
5641 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
5643 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
5644 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
5646 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
5649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
5651 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
5653 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
5654 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
5655 that don't always have the same files in them.
5656 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
5657 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
5658 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
5660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
5662 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
5664 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
5666 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
5667 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
5668 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
5669 updating 27 man pages.
5670 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
5671 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
5672 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
5673 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
5674 programs act on. (#25247)
5676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
5678 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
5682 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
5683 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
5684 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
5685 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
5686 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
5687 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
5690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
5692 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
5694 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
5697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
5699 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
5701 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
5704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
5706 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
5708 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
5709 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
5711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
5713 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
5715 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
5717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
5719 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
5721 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
5722 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
5723 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5724 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
5725 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
5726 package by accident.
5727 * Is version 1.0 next?
5729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
5731 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
5733 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
5734 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
5735 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
5739 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
5741 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
5742 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
5743 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
5744 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
5745 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
5746 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
5748 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
5751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
5753 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
5755 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
5756 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
5757 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
5759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
5761 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
5763 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
5764 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
5766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
5768 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
5770 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
5771 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
5772 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
5775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
5777 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
5779 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
5781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
5783 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
5785 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
5786 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
5787 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
5790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
5792 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
5794 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
5796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
5798 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
5800 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
5801 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
5802 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
5803 past week. Thanks, guys!
5805 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
5806 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
5807 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
5808 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
5809 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
5810 would do in the same situation.
5811 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
5812 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
5814 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
5816 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
5817 permissions changed.
5818 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
5819 some people enjoy changing root's name.
5820 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
5821 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
5822 files are treated identically.
5823 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
5824 * Minor man page fixes.
5825 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
5826 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
5827 --no-act is on. (#23054)
5829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
5831 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5833 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5834 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5835 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5836 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5837 use -X multiple times, too.
5838 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5839 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5843 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5845 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5846 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5847 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5851 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5853 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5854 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5858 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5860 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5861 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5862 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5863 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5864 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5865 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5866 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5867 shape if you're starting a new package.
5869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5871 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5873 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5874 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5878 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5880 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5881 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5882 because of missing symlinks.
5884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5886 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5888 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5892 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5894 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5895 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5896 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5897 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5898 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5899 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5901 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5902 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5906 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5908 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5909 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5910 to be changed after the fact :-)
5911 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5915 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5917 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5918 no version string after the -V.
5920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5922 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5924 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5925 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5930 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5932 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5933 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5937 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5939 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5940 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5941 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5942 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5943 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5944 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5945 I always welcome corrections!
5947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5949 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5951 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5955 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5957 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5958 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5959 * Documented this new switch.
5961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5963 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5965 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5966 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5967 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5968 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5969 no packages use the old behavior.
5971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5973 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5975 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5976 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5977 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5981 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5983 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5984 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5988 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5990 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5994 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5996 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5997 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
6001 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
6003 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
6004 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
6005 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
6006 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
6008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
6010 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
6012 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
6014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
6016 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
6018 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
6019 into the source package by accident.
6021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
6023 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
6025 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
6026 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
6027 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
6028 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
6029 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
6030 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
6031 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
6034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
6036 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
6038 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
6040 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
6041 inspired to implement some of it.
6042 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
6044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
6046 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
6048 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
6049 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
6051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
6053 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
6055 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
6056 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
6057 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
6059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
6061 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
6063 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
6064 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
6065 have done.) (#17598)
6067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
6069 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
6071 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
6073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
6075 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
6077 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
6079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
6081 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
6083 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
6084 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
6086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
6088 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
6090 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
6091 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
6092 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
6094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
6096 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
6098 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
6099 argument processor in perl.
6100 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
6101 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
6102 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
6103 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
6105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
6107 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
6109 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
6110 type directories. (#16933)
6111 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
6112 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
6113 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
6114 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
6115 are supported. (#16935)
6116 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
6119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
6121 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
6123 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
6124 This has been broken since version 0.30.
6126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
6128 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
6130 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
6132 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
6133 version requirements in the shlibs file.
6134 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
6135 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
6136 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
6137 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
6139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
6141 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
6143 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
6144 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
6145 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
6147 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
6148 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
6149 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
6150 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
6151 a given package, or -i or -a.
6152 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
6153 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
6154 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
6155 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
6156 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
6157 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
6158 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
6159 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
6160 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
6162 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
6163 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
6164 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
6166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
6168 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
6170 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
6171 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
6172 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
6175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
6177 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
6179 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
6180 does not have a section.
6182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
6184 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
6186 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
6187 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
6188 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
6189 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
6191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
6193 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
6195 * Fixed typo #16215.
6197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
6199 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
6201 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
6202 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
6203 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
6204 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
6205 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
6206 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
6209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
6211 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
6213 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
6214 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
6215 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
6216 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
6219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
6221 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
6223 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
6225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
6227 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
6229 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
6231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
6233 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
6235 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
6236 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
6237 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
6238 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
6239 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
6240 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
6241 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
6243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
6245 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
6247 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
6249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
6251 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
6253 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
6254 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
6256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
6258 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
6260 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
6261 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
6262 the dh_* programs (#15497).
6263 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
6265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
6267 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
6269 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
6270 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
6272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
6274 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
6276 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
6278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
6280 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
6282 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
6283 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
6285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
6287 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
6289 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
6290 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
6292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
6294 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
6296 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
6298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
6300 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
6302 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
6303 postinst, postrm, etc.
6305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
6307 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
6309 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
6311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
6313 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
6315 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
6316 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
6317 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
6318 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
6319 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
6320 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
6322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
6324 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
6326 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
6327 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
6328 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
6330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
6332 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
6334 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
6335 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
6337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
6339 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
6341 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
6342 installing package files into.
6343 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
6346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
6348 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
6350 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
6352 * Install examples/rules* executable.
6354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
6356 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
6358 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
6360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
6362 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
6364 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
6365 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
6367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
6369 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
6371 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
6372 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
6373 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
6374 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
6375 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
6377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
6379 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
6381 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
6382 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
6383 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
6384 multiple binary packages.
6385 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
6386 should rebuild them with this version.
6387 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
6389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
6391 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
6393 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
6394 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
6396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
6398 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
6400 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
6401 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
6403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
6405 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
6407 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
6408 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
6409 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
6410 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
6411 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
6412 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
6413 debian/README.debian.
6414 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
6415 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
6416 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
6417 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
6418 in a few situations.)
6420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
6422 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
6424 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
6426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
6428 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
6430 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
6432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
6434 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
6436 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
6437 * Fixed several man pages.
6439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
6441 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
6443 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
6444 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
6445 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
6447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
6449 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
6451 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
6452 is ready for general use.
6453 * Added man pages for all commands.
6454 * Multiple binary package support.
6455 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
6456 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
6457 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
6459 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
6460 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
6461 auto-installed as parameters.
6462 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
6464 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
6467 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
6468 the package build directory it is to act on.
6469 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
6470 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
6471 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
6473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
6475 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
6477 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
6478 ready to replace debstd.
6480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400