1 debhelper (5.0.64) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_gencontrol: Stop passing -isp, it's the default now. Closes: #458114
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:45:39 -0500
7 debhelper (5.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installdocs: Tighten doc-base document id parsing to only accept
10 the characters that the doc-base manual allows in the id. Closes: #445541
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:54:51 -0500
14 debhelper (5.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Remove execute bit from desktop files in /usr/share/applications.
18 * Fix man page names of translated debhelper(7) man pages.
19 Patch from Frédéric Bothamy. Closes: 453051
20 * dh_makeshlibs: Use new -I flag to specify symbol files, necessary to
21 properly support includes. Closes: #452717
22 * Increase dpkg-dev dependency to 1.14.12 to ensure that dh_makeshlibs
23 isn't used with an old dpkg-gensymbols that doesn't support -I.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:04:59 -0500
27 debhelper (5.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Man page fix re v4. Closes: #450608
30 * dh_makeshlibs: Support symbols files. Closes: #443978
31 Packages using this support should build-depend on dpkg-dev (>= 1.14.8).
32 Symbols files can be downloaded from mole:
33 http://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/mole/seedsymbols
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:27:57 -0500
37 debhelper (5.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
39 * Debhelper is now developed in a git repository.
40 * Reword paragraph about debian/compress files to perhaps be more clear
41 about the debian/compress file. Closes: #448759
42 * dh_installdirs(1): Remove unnecessary caveat about slashes.
43 * dh_icons: Now that GTK 2.12 has entered testing, use the much simpler to
44 call update-icon-caches command. Thanks, Josselin Mouette.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:21:08 -0400
48 debhelper (5.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
50 * dh_installdeb: Add support for dpkg triggers, by installing
51 debian/package.triggers files.
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:59:18 -0400
55 debhelper (5.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_clean: append "/" to the temp dir name to avoid removing
58 a file with the same name. Closes: #445638
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:25:50 -0400
62 debhelper (5.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Add --ignore option. This is intended to ease dealing with upstream
65 tarballs that contain debian directories, by allowing debhelper config
66 files in those directories to be ignored, since there's generally no
67 good way to delete them out of the upstream tarball, and they can easily
68 get in the way if upstream is using debian/ differently than the Debian
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:42:09 -0400
73 debhelper (5.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
75 * dh_installmodules: Since modutils is gone, stop supporting
76 debian/*.modutils files. Warn about such files. Closes: #443127
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:16:13 -0400
80 debhelper (5.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_desktop: Only generate calls to update-desktop-database for desktop
83 files with MimeType fields. Patch from Emmet Hikory. Closes: #427831
84 * dh_strip: Don't run objcopy if the output file already exists.
86 * dh_strip: Check that --dbg-package lists the name of a real package.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:50:08 -0400
91 debhelper (5.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_strip: Man page reference to policy section on DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
95 * dh_link: Skip self-links. Closes: #438572
96 * Don't use - in front of make clean in example rules files.
97 * Typo. Closes: #441272
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:52:40 -0400
101 debhelper (5.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_icons: Check for index.theme files before updating the cache.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:51:00 -0400
108 debhelper (5.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Remove DOS line endings from dh_icons scriptlets. Thanks, Daniel Holbach.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:26:18 -0400
115 debhelper (5.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_icons: New program to update Freedesktop icon caches. Thanks
118 to Josselin Mouette, Ross Burton, Jordi Mallach, and Loïc Minier.
120 * Note that as a transitional measure, dh_icons will currently only update
121 existing caches, and not create and new caches. Once everything is
122 updating the icon caches, this will be changed. See #329460 for the full
124 * Remove possibly confusing (though strictly accurate) sentence from
125 dh_installdirs.1. Closes: #429318
126 * dh_gencontrol: Fix man page typo. Closes: #431232
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:16:21 -0400
130 debhelper (5.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installwm: If a path is not given, assume the file is in usr/bin, since
133 usr/X11R6/bin now points to there.
134 * Update urls to web page.
135 * Add some checks for attempts to act on packages not defined in the control
137 * Use dpkg-query to retrieve conffile info in udev rules upgrade code
138 rather than parsing status directly. (Thanks Guillem)
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 May 2007 13:14:06 -0400
142 debhelper (5.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installwm: Fix several stupid bugs, including:
145 - man page handling was supposed to be v6 only and was not
146 - typo in alternatives call
147 - use the basename of the wm to get the man page name
149 * dh_installwm: Also make the code to find the man page more robust and
150 fall back to not registering a man page if it is not found.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:43:35 -0400
154 debhelper (5.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Remove use of #SECTION# from dh_installinfo postinst snippet
157 that was accidentially re-added in 5.0.46 due to a corrupt svn checkout.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:24:58 -0400
162 debhelper (5.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Fix absurd typo. How did I test for an hour and miss that? Closes: #419612
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:20:20 -0400
168 debhelper (5.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Fix a typo in postinst-udev.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:39:41 -0400
174 debhelper (5.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installudev: Install udev rules directly into /etc/udev/rules.d/, not
177 using the symlinks. MD has agreed that this is more appropriate for most
179 * That fixes the longstanding bug that the symlink was only made on brand
180 new installs of the package, rather than on upgrade to the first version
181 that includes the udev rules file. Closes: #359614
182 * This avoids the need to run udevcontrol reload_rules, since inotify
183 will see the file has changed. Closes: #414537
184 * dh_installudev: Add preinst and postinst code to handle cleanly moving
185 the rules file to the new location on upgrade.
186 * This would be a good time for the many packages that manage rules files
187 w/o using dh_installudev to begin to use it..
188 * Do script fragement reversal only in v6, since it can break certian
189 third party programs such as dh_installtex. Closes: #419060
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:34:10 -0400
193 debhelper (5.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_installudev: Don't fail if the link already somehow exists on initial
196 package install. Closes: #415717
197 * prerm and postrm scripts are now generated in a reverse order than
198 preinst and postinst scripts. For example, if a package uses
199 dh_pysupport before dh_installinit, the prerm will first stop the init
200 script and then remove the python files.
201 * Introducing beginning of v6 mode.
202 * dh_installwm: In v6 mode, install a slave manpage link for
203 x-window-manager.1.gz. Done in v6 mode because some window managers
204 probably work around this longstanding debhelper bug by registering the
205 slave on their own. This bug was only fixable once programs moved out of
206 /usr/X11R6. Closes: #85963
207 * dh_builddeb: In v6 mode, fix bug in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE handling, to work
208 the same as all the other code in debhelper. This could only be fixed in
209 v6 mode because packages may potentially legitimately rely on the old
210 buggy behavior. Closes: #242834
211 * dh_installman: In v6 mode, overwrite existing man pages. Closes: #288250
212 * Add dh_installifupdown. Please consider using this if you have
213 /etc/network/if-up.d, etc files. Closes: #217552
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 09 Apr 2007 15:18:22 -0400
217 debhelper (5.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Correct typo in french translation
223 * Typo. Closes: #400571
224 * dh_fixperms: Change a chmod +x to chmod a+x, to avoid the umask
226 * Looks like Package-Type might get into dpkg. Support it w/o the XB-
228 * dh_installudev: Fix postrm to not fail if the udev symlink is missing.
229 Closes: #406921, #381940
230 * dh_fixperms: Make all files in /usr/include 644, not only .h files.
232 * Man page improvements. Closes: #406707
233 * dh_installdocs: In v5 mode, now ignore empty files even if they're hidden
234 away inside a subdirectory. The code missed this before. See #200905
235 * dh_installudev: Support debian/udev files. Closes: #381854
236 * dh_installudev: Treat --priority value as a string so that leading zeros
237 can be used (also so that a leading "z" that is not "z60" can be
238 specified). Closes: #381851
239 * Misc minor changes.
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:44:02 -0500
243 debhelper (5.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_link and
250 * Patch from Simon Paillard to convert French manpages from utf-8 to
251 ISO-8859-15. Closes: #397953
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:32:23 -0500
255 debhelper (5.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_installchangelogs man page typo. Closes: #393155
261 * Encoding french translation from charset ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
262 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installchangelogs
265 * Tighten python-support and python-central dependencies of debhelper,
266 in an IMHO rather futile attempt to deal with derived distributions.
268 * Correct some incorrect instances of "v4 only" in docs. Closes: #381536
269 * dh_installinfo: Put the section madness to bed by not passing any section
270 information to install-info. Current install-info parses INFO-DIR-SECTION
271 on its own if that's not specified. Closes: #337215
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:04:47 -0500
275 debhelper (5.0.40) unstable; urgency=medium
278 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_python
281 * Tighten conflict with python-central. Closes: #391463
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:21:28 -0400
285 debhelper (5.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_python: Also be a no-op if there's a Python-Version control file field.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:02:24 -0400
291 debhelper (5.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installmodules
297 * ACK last three NMUs with thanks to Raphael Hertzog for making the best of
298 a difficult situation.
299 * Revert all dh_python changes. Closes: #381389, #378604
300 * Conflict with python-support <= 0.5.2 and python-central <= 0.5.4.
301 * Make dh_python do nothing if debian/pycompat is found.
302 The new versions of dh_pysupport or dh_pycentral will take care of
303 everything dh_python used to do in this situation.
304 * dh_python is now deprecated. Closes: #358392, #253582, #189474
305 * move po4a to Build-Depends as it's run in clean.
306 * Add size test, which fails on any debhelper program of more than 150
307 lines (excluding POD). This is not a joke, and 100 lines would be better.
308 * Add size test exception for dh_python, since it's deprecated.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:07:40 -0400
312 debhelper (5.0.37.3) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Non-maintainer upload.
315 * Update of dh_python
316 - when buidling for a non-standard Python version, generate more
317 reasonable Depends like "python (>= X.Y) | pythonX.Y"
319 - fix handling of private extensions. Closes: #375948
320 - fix parsing of XS-Python-Version, it didn't work if only fixed versions
321 were listed in XS-Python-Version.
322 - fix use of unitialized value. Closes: #374776
323 - fix typos in POD documentation. Closes: #375936
325 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:20:06 +0200
327 debhelper (5.0.37.2) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Non-maintainer upload.
330 * Update of dh_python
331 - vastly refactored, easier to understand, and the difference
332 between old policy and new policy is easier to grasp
333 - it supports an -X option which can be used to not scan some files
334 - uses debian/pyversions as reference source of information for
335 dependencies but also parse the XS-Python-Version header as fallback.
336 - ${python:Versions}'s default value is XS-Python-Version's value
337 instead of "all" when the package doesn't depend on a
338 specific python version. Closes: #373853
339 - always generate ${python:Provides} and leave the responsibility to the
340 maintainer to not use ${python:Provides} if he doesn't want the
342 - uses debian/pycompat or DH_PYCOMPAT as reference field to run in new
343 policy mode. The presence of XS-Python-Version will also trigger the
344 new policy mode (this is for short-term compatibility, it may be removed in
345 the not too-distant future).
346 DH_PYCOMPAT=1 is the default mode and is compatible to the old policy.
347 DH_PYCOMPAT=2 is the new mode and is compatible with the new policy.
348 * Use "grep ^Version:" instead of "grep Version:" on the output of
349 dpkg-parsechangelog since the above changelog entry matched "Version:" and
350 thus made the build fail.
352 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jun 2006 20:44:29 +0200
354 debhelper (5.0.37.1) unstable; urgency=low
356 * Non-maintainer upload.
357 * Integrate the new dh_python implementing the new Python policy. Closes: #370833
359 -- Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:58:22 +0200
361 debhelper (5.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_installmodules: depmod -a is no longer run during boot, so if a module
364 package is installed for a kernel other than the running kernel, just
365 running depmod -a in the postinst is no longer sufficient. Instead, run
366 depmod -a -F /boot/System.map-<kvers> <kvers>
367 The kernel version is guessed at based on the path to the modules in the
368 package. Closes: #301424
369 * dh_installxfonts: In postrm, run the deregistraton code even on upgrade,
370 in case an upgrade involves moving fonts around (or removing or renaming
371 fonts). Closes: #372686
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jun 2006 21:17:38 -0400
375 debhelper (5.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
381 * Remove old alternate dependency on fileutils. Closes: #370011
382 * Patch from Guillem Jover to make --same-arch handling code support
383 the new form of architecture wildcarding which allows use of things
384 like "linux-any" and "any-i386" in the Architecture field. Closes: #371082
385 * Needs dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dpkg-architecture -s support needed by
386 above, but already depends on that.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:57:19 -0400
390 debhelper (5.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_installman: When --language is used, be smarter about stripping
393 language codes from man page filenames. Only strip things that look like
394 codes that match the specified languages. Closes: #366645
395 * dh_installxfonts: /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7 is deprecated, back to looking in
396 old location, and not passing --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-alias and
397 update-fonts-scale (but still to update-fonts-dir). Closes: #366234
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 May 2006 20:09:00 -0400
401 debhelper (5.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installcatalogs: Make sure that /etc/sgml exists. Closes: #364946
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:56 -0400
407 debhelper (5.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Update french translation with recent change in dh_installxfonts
413 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Theppitak Karoonboonyanan to fix
414 an instance of /etc/X11/fonts/ that was missed before. Closes: #364530
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:37:54 -0400
418 debhelper (5.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_installudev: Include rules.d directory so symlink can be made even
421 before udev is installed. Closes: #363307
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:13:54 -0400
425 debhelper (5.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Update french translation with recents changes in dh_installxfonts,
429 dh_link and dh_compress manpages
430 * Delete -f option in po4a command line. Bug in po4a has been corrected in
431 new version (0.24.1).
432 * Change build-depends for po4a. New version (0.24.1).
433 * Add code for removing empty "lang" directories into man/ when cleaning.
436 * dh_installxfonts: pass --x11r7-layout to update-fonts-* commands to ensure
437 they use the right new directory. Closes: #362820
438 * dh_installxfonts: also, alias files have moved from /etc/X11/fonts/* to
439 /etc/X11/fonts/X11R7/*, update call to update-fonts-alias and the man page
440 accordingly; packages containing alias files will need to switch to the
441 new directory on their own.
442 * dh_installudev: correct documentation for --name. Closes: #363028
443 * Fix broken directory removal code.
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:12:41 -0400
447 debhelper (5.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Convert the "I have no packages to build" error into a warning. Am I
450 really the first person to run into the case of a source package that
451 builds an arch all package and an single-arch package? In this case,
452 the binary-arch target needs to use -s and do nothing when run on some
453 other arch, and debhelper will now support this.
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:35:55 +0200
457 debhelper (5.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_installxfonts: Random hack to deal with X font dirs moving to
460 /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -- look there for fonts as well as in the old
461 location, although the old location probably won't be seen by X anymore.
462 * dh_installxfonts: Generate misc:Depends on new xfonts-utils.
463 * dh_compress: compress pcm fonts under usr/share/fonts/X11/
464 * dh_link: change example that used X11R6 directory.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 10:29:29 +0200
468 debhelper (5.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_makeshlibs: Fix udeb package name regexp. Closes: #361677
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Apr 2006 13:05:50 -0400
474 debhelper (5.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Typo. Closes: #358904
478 * dh_install: swap two paras in man page for clarity. Closes: #359182
479 * dh_installman: die with an error if a man page read for so lines fails
483 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
484 dh_installdirs and dh_movefiles manpages
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:22:12 -0500
488 debhelper (5.0.26) unstable; urgency=high
490 * dh_installinit: Fix badly generated code in maint scripts that used
491 || exit 0 instead of the intended
493 due to a bad shell expansion and caused invoke-rc.d errors to be
494 ignored. Closes: #337664
496 Note: This has been broken since version 4.2.12 and has affected many
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:33:38 -0500
501 debhelper (5.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_installdebconf: For udebs, misc:Depends will now contain cdebconf-udeb.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:13:05 -0500
507 debhelper (5.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Add dh_installudev by Marco d'Itri.
512 [ vperrin forgot to add this to the changelog when committing ]
513 * Update pot file and french translation with recent changes in
514 the dh_installdebconf manpage
515 * Add -f option to force .pot file re-building. This is in waiting
516 a patch, correcting a bug in po4a_0.23.1
517 * Add --rm-backups in clean: Otherwise ll.po~ are included in the
518 source package. (see debhelper_5.0.22.tar.gz)
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:40:22 -0500
522 debhelper (5.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_strip: remove binutils build-dep lines since stable has a new enough
525 version. Closes: #350607
526 * dh_installdebconf: drop all support for old-style translated debconf
527 templates files via debconf-mergetemplate (keep a warning if any are
528 found, for now). Allows dropping debhelper's dependency on
529 debconf-utils. Closes: #331796
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:42:30 -0500
533 debhelper (5.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_makeshlibs: add support for adding udeb: lines to shlibs file
536 via --add-udeb parameter. Closes: #345471
537 * dh_shlibdeps: pass -tudeb to dpkg-shlibdeps for udebs. Closes: #345472
538 * Depends on dpkg-dev 1.13.13 for dh_shlibdeps change.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:04:53 -0500
542 debhelper (5.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_installman: correct mistake that broke translated man page installation
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:32:44 -0500
549 debhelper (5.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Minor bug fix from last release.
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:29:10 -0500
555 debhelper (5.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_installman: add support for --language option to override man page
558 language guessing. Closes: #193221
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:52:00 -0500
562 debhelper (5.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Improved po4a cleaning. Closes: #348521
565 * Reverted change in 4.1.9, so generation of EXCLUDE_FIND escapes "." to
566 "\\.", which turns into "\." after being run through the shell, and
567 prevents find from treating -X.svn as a regexp that matches files such
568 as foo/svn.vim. (It's safe to do this now that all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND are
569 via complex_doit(), which was not the case of dh_clean when this change
570 was originally made.) Closes: #349070
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:09:31 -0500
574 debhelper (5.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_python: Temporarily revert change in 5.0.13 to make use of
577 python-support for packages providing private modules or python-only
578 modules, since python policy hasn't been updated for this yet.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:39:20 -0500
583 debhelper (5.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Fix dangling markup in dh_installinit pod. Closes: #348073
586 * Updated French translation from Valéry Perrin. Closes: #348074
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:29:27 -0500
590 debhelper (5.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Fix ghastly option parsing error in last release that broke
593 --noscripts (-n was ok). Thanks, Marc Haber. Closes: #347577
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:41 -0500
597 debhelper (5.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_installinit: If run with -o, do the inverse of -n and only
600 set up maintainer script snippets, w/o installing any files.
601 Useful for those edge cases where the init script is provided by upstream
602 and not easily installed by dh_installinit but where it's worth letting
603 it manage the maintainer scripts anyway. Closes: #140881, #184980
604 * -o might be added for other similar commands later if there is any
605 reason to. And yeah, it means that -no is close to a no-op..
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Jan 2006 17:21:52 -0500
609 debhelper (5.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
612 * debhelper svn moved to alioth
613 * debhelper(7): document previous dh_install v5 change re wildcarding.
614 * dh_link: add special case handling for paths to a directory containing the
615 link. Closes: #346405
616 * dh_link: add special case handling for link to /
619 * dh_python: make use of python-support for packages providing private
620 modules or python-only modules. This should greatly reduce the
621 number of packages needing to transition together with python.
622 * postinst-python: don't build the .pyo files, they aren't even used!
623 * dh_gconf: add support for debian/package.gconf-defaults, to provide
624 defaults for a package without patching the schemas.
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:34:26 -0500
628 debhelper (5.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installdocs: document that -X affects doc-base file installation.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:27:14 -0500
635 debhelper (5.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
637 * French translation update. Closes: #344133
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:40:25 -0500
641 debhelper (5.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_installdocs: Fix bug introduced by empty file skipping that prevented
644 errors for nonexistent files. Closes: #342729
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Dec 2005 18:05:15 -0500
648 debhelper (5.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installmodules: always run depmod, since if module-init-tools but not
651 modutils is installed, it will not get run by update-modules.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Dec 2005 13:04:11 -0500
656 debhelper (5.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Man page type fixes (yes, more, nice to know people read the man pages).
660 * dh_installdocs: Make -X also exclude matching doc-base files from being
661 installed. Closes: #342033
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:31:23 -0500
665 debhelper (5.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update Frensh translation, and also update
668 the po4a stuff. Closes: #338713
669 * Fix a bad regexp in -s handling code that breaks if an architecture name,
670 such as i386-uclibc is the hyphenated version of a different arch.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:28:13 -0500
675 debhelper (5.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Pass --name in debhelper.pod pod2man run. Closes: #338349
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:08:27 -0500
681 debhelper (5.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Create Dh_Version.pm before running syntax test. Closes: #338337
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:41:06 -0500
687 debhelper (5.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Remove hardcoded paths to update-modules and gconf-schemas in various
691 * dh_clean: Patch from Matej Vela to clean up autom4te.cache directories
692 in subdiretories of the source tree and do it all in one enormous,
693 evil, and fast find expression. Closes: #338193
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Nov 2005 16:16:56 -0500
697 debhelper (5.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Remove dh_shlibs from binary-indep section of debian/rules.
700 * Add t/syntax to make sure all dh_* commands and the libraries syntax check
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:12 -0500
705 debhelper (5.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Sometimes it's a good idea to edit more files than just the changelog
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:54:46 -0500
712 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
718 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
720 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
721 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
722 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
723 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
724 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
725 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
726 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
727 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
729 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
733 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
736 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
737 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
741 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
743 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
744 in standard man dirs.
745 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
749 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
755 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
758 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
763 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
770 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
777 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
780 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
781 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
785 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
787 * NMU with maintainer approval.
788 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
789 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
790 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
792 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
794 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
800 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
806 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
809 mode. Closes: #324161
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
813 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
816 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
817 behavior change. Closes: #249815
818 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
819 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
824 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
827 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
828 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
829 is necesary for sanity.
830 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
831 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
836 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
838 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
839 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
843 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
846 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
850 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
852 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
856 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
858 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
859 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
860 released, so use at your own risk.
861 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
862 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
864 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
865 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
866 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
867 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
868 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
869 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
870 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
871 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
872 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
873 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
874 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
875 including twice per config file line now..
876 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
877 and simplfy the rules file.
878 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
879 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
880 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
882 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
883 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
887 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
890 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
894 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
897 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
901 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
903 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
904 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
908 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
911 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
912 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
913 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
914 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
915 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
916 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
920 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
923 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
924 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
925 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
930 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
933 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
934 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
939 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
942 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
943 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
944 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
949 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
951 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
952 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
953 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
954 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
958 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
960 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
964 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
971 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
974 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
975 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
976 unknown. Closes: #282924
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
980 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
987 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Spanish man page updates.
990 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
995 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
1001 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
1004 * dh_desktop: reindent
1005 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
1006 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
1010 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
1016 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1018 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
1022 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
1024 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
1028 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
1031 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
1032 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
1036 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
1042 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
1048 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
1055 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
1058 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
1062 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
1065 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
1066 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
1067 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
1068 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
1069 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
1070 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
1072 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
1073 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
1074 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
1075 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
1076 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
1077 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
1078 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
1079 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
1080 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
1081 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
1082 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
1083 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
1084 in the others, and added a few new tests.
1085 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
1086 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
1087 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
1091 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
1098 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
1101 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
1105 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
1108 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
1112 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
1115 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
1119 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
1122 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
1132 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
1138 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
1144 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
1147 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
1148 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
1149 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
1153 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
1156 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
1160 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
1163 but occasionally right and necessary.
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
1167 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
1170 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
1171 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
1172 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
1173 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
1174 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
1178 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
1181 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
1183 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
1184 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
1185 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
1186 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
1187 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
1188 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
1189 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
1190 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
1191 postinst scripts for udebs.
1192 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
1196 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
1199 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
1201 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
1202 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
1206 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
1212 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
1219 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
1226 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
1229 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
1233 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
1236 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
1240 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
1243 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
1246 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
1247 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
1251 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
1257 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
1260 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
1264 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
1267 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
1268 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
1269 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
1271 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
1273 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
1274 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
1275 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
1279 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
1282 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
1287 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
1290 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
1291 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
1292 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
1297 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
1303 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
1309 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
1312 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
1313 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
1314 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
1315 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
1316 associated -dbg packages.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
1320 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
1323 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
1327 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
1330 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
1334 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
1337 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
1341 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
1344 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
1349 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Typo. Closes: #207999
1352 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
1356 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
1359 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
1364 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
1367 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
1371 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
1375 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
1376 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
1377 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
1378 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
1379 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
1380 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
1381 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
1382 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
1383 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
1384 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
1388 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
1391 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
1396 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
1399 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
1400 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
1404 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
1407 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
1408 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
1413 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
1416 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
1420 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
1423 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
1427 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
1430 out section number. Closes: #204731
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
1434 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
1441 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
1447 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
1453 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Typo, Closes: #203907
1456 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
1457 removal. Closes: #204286
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
1461 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
1464 renaming. Closes: #203548
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
1468 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
1471 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
1472 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
1476 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
1482 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
1488 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
1494 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
1497 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
1498 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
1499 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
1503 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
1506 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
1507 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
1511 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
1517 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
1524 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
1527 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
1532 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
1535 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
1539 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
1542 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
1544 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
1545 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
1549 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
1552 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
1557 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
1560 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
1564 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
1570 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
1572 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
1576 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
1579 it break hard links (see #188663).
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
1583 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
1586 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
1590 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
1596 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
1600 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
1601 debconf-mergetemplates
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
1605 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
1608 pod2man. Closes: #184013
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
1612 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
1615 * Typo, Closes: #183267
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
1619 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
1622 * Update debhelper(1).
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
1626 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
1629 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
1630 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
1631 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
1632 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
1633 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
1637 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
1640 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
1641 the shell. Closes: #178524
1642 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
1646 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
1649 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
1653 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
1656 undocumented.7 links anymore.
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
1660 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
1663 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
1664 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
1665 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
1666 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
1671 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
1674 files from installation.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
1678 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
1681 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
1682 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
1686 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
1689 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
1693 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
1696 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
1700 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
1706 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1712 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1716 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1717 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1719 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1723 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1726 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1727 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1728 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1729 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1733 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1736 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1740 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1743 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1744 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1748 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1752 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1757 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1763 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1767 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1768 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1769 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1774 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1777 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1778 practice. Closes: #163303
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1782 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1788 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1795 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1798 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1800 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1801 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1802 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1803 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1804 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1808 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1811 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1816 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1822 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1829 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1832 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1837 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1843 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1849 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1855 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1862 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1865 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1866 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1867 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1868 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1873 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1879 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1886 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1889 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1890 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1894 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1897 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1898 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1899 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1900 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1901 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1905 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1908 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1910 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1915 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1918 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1922 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1925 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1926 right thing. Closes: #150644
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1930 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Stupid, evil typo.
1933 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1937 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1944 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1947 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1948 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1953 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1959 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1962 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1966 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1969 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1970 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1975 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1978 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1982 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1988 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1991 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1992 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1996 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
2002 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Removing perl warning message.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
2008 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
2011 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
2012 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
2013 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
2014 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
2015 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
2016 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
2017 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
2018 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
2022 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
2028 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
2035 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
2038 debconf-mergetemplate.
2039 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
2040 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
2044 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
2047 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
2048 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
2049 dh_install, which ...
2050 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
2051 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
2052 mess, as it uses debian/install.
2053 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
2054 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
2055 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
2056 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
2057 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
2058 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
2059 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
2060 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
2061 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
2062 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
2063 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
2064 other minor changes.
2065 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
2066 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
2067 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
2068 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
2069 course there's -X ..)
2070 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
2071 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
2072 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
2074 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
2075 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
2076 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
2077 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
2078 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
2083 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
2089 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Typo, Closes: #139176
2092 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
2096 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
2102 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
2108 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
2114 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
2120 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
2123 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
2124 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
2125 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
2126 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
2128 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
2129 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
2133 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
2139 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Typo, Closes: #132454
2142 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
2146 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
2149 upset. Closes: #131322
2151 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
2153 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
2155 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
2156 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
2157 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
2158 line, as well as in debian/rules.
2159 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
2160 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
2161 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
2162 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
2163 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
2164 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
2165 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
2166 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
2167 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
2168 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
2169 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
2170 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
2172 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
2176 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
2179 - Better indenting of generated code.
2180 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
2184 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
2188 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
2189 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
2190 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
2191 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
2192 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
2193 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
2194 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
2198 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
2201 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
2205 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
2208 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
2209 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
2210 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
2211 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
2212 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
2213 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
2214 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
2215 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
2216 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
2217 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
2218 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
2219 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
2220 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
2221 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
2222 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
2227 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
2233 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
2236 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
2237 * fixed dh_testdir man page
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
2241 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Typo, Closes: #122679
2244 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
2245 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
2249 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
2255 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
2258 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
2259 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
2260 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
2261 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
2262 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
2267 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
2273 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
2276 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
2280 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
2283 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
2288 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Typo, Closes: #114135
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
2294 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
2297 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
2301 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
2307 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
2311 Also some indentation fixes.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
2315 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
2318 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
2319 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
2320 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
2321 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
2322 Closes: #106514, #85520
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
2326 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Typo, Closes: #104405
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
2332 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
2338 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
2344 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
2350 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
2356 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
2359 change it in debhelper v4..
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
2363 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
2369 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
2372 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
2376 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
2379 is not essential. Closes: #100430
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
2383 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
2389 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
2392 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
2393 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
2394 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
2395 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
2396 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
2397 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
2398 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
2399 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
2400 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
2401 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
2402 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
2403 prefixed with ".debhelper")
2405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
2407 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2409 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
2410 look just like shared libs, but are not.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
2414 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
2421 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
2424 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
2425 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
2426 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
2427 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
2428 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
2429 program those options go to. So, for example,
2430 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
2431 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
2432 something complex. Closes: #89311
2433 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
2435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
2437 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2439 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
2440 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
2441 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
2442 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
2446 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
2449 through loop. Closes: #98598
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
2453 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * Missing semi-colon.
2456 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
2457 this (dh_* should be called, really).
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
2461 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
2464 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
2465 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
2466 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
2470 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
2473 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
2474 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
2478 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
2481 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
2485 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
2488 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
2489 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
2493 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
2496 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
2497 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
2498 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
2502 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
2505 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
2506 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
2507 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
2511 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
2514 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
2518 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
2524 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * Typo, Closes: #92407
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
2530 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
2536 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
2542 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
2545 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
2549 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
2552 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
2553 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
2554 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
2555 followed. Closes: #85483
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
2559 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
2561 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
2562 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
2563 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
2567 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
2570 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
2571 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
2572 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
2573 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
2574 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
2575 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
2576 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
2577 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
2578 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
2579 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
2580 Closes: #88464, #77743
2581 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
2582 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
2583 us to deal with that gracefully.
2584 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
2586 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
2587 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
2588 a while, Closes: #51225
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
2592 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
2598 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
2601 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
2605 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
2609 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
2614 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
2617 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
2618 don't make packlist files.
2619 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
2620 debhelper coding standards.
2621 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
2622 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
2626 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
2629 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
2633 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
2636 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
2637 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
2638 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
2639 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
2640 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
2641 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
2642 but is mildly deprecated.
2643 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
2644 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
2645 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
2646 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
2647 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
2648 switching to statoverrides..
2649 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
2650 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
2651 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
2652 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
2653 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
2654 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
2656 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
2657 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
2658 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
2659 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
2660 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
2661 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
2662 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
2663 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
2664 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
2666 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
2667 variable names, pod man pages).
2668 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
2669 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
2670 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
2671 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
2672 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
2673 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
2674 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
2678 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
2684 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
2691 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
2694 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
2698 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2700 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
2701 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
2702 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
2706 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
2708 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
2709 they were previously ignored.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2713 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2715 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2716 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2720 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2722 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2723 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2724 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2728 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2730 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2734 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2736 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2737 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2741 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2743 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2744 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2745 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2746 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2747 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2748 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2749 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2750 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2751 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2752 it is an obsolete program.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2756 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2758 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2762 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2766 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2768 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2772 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2774 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2776 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2778 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2782 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2788 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * typo: Closes, #78567
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2794 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2800 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2806 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2809 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2810 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2811 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2812 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2813 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2817 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2820 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2825 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2828 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2829 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2830 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2831 backwards-compatability.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2835 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2838 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2839 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2840 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2841 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2842 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2843 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2845 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2846 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2847 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2849 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2851 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2852 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2853 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2854 should now be raised to severity important..
2855 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2856 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2860 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2863 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2868 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2874 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2880 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2886 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2893 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2896 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2897 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2898 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2899 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2903 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2909 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2912 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2913 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2914 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2915 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2916 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2917 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2922 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2925 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2929 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2935 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2938 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2943 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2946 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2947 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2948 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2949 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2953 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2957 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2960 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2963 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2964 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2967 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2969 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2970 the TODO entry about it.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2974 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2981 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2984 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2985 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2989 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2991 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2992 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2993 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2994 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2995 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2999 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
3005 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
3012 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
3015 (this appears to be logal).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
3019 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
3022 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
3023 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
3024 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
3025 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
3029 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
3035 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
3038 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
3039 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
3040 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
3041 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
3045 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
3051 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
3054 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
3058 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
3065 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
3068 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
3069 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
3070 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
3075 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
3080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
3082 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3084 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
3088 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
3091 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
3092 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
3093 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
3094 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
3095 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
3096 notice until v2 is complete.
3097 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
3098 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
3099 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
3100 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
3101 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
3102 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
3104 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
3105 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
3106 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
3107 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
3111 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
3117 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
3124 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
3127 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
3138 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
3141 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
3142 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
3143 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
3144 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
3149 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
3152 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
3153 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
3154 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
3159 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
3162 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
3163 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
3167 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
3170 just skip files that end in -\d+.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
3174 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
3177 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
3181 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
3188 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
3191 depend on the build and install targets.
3193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
3195 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3197 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
3198 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
3202 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
3209 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
3215 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
3221 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
3224 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
3225 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
3226 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
3227 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
3228 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
3229 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
3231 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
3232 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
3233 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
3234 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
3235 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
3236 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
3237 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
3241 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
3247 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
3253 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
3256 right place. Closes: #55065
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
3260 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
3267 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * Make all examples rules files executable.
3270 * Copyright date updates.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
3274 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
3277 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
3282 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
3288 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
3295 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
3301 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
3307 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
3313 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
3316 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
3317 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
3318 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
3319 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
3320 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
3321 bits until all files have been registered.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
3325 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_installmanpages:
3328 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
3329 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
3330 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
3331 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
3332 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
3333 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
3334 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
3335 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
3336 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
3337 otherwise change the result at all.
3339 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
3340 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
3341 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
3342 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
3343 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
3348 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
3354 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
3357 act on files that don't exist.
3358 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
3359 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
3360 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
3362 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
3363 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
3364 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
3365 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
3369 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
3375 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
3381 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
3384 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
3388 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
3391 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
3393 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
3394 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
3395 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
3399 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
3402 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
3403 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
3404 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
3405 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
3406 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
3407 does not compress. Closes: #41733
3408 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
3410 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
3412 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
3416 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
3423 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
3429 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
3435 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
3438 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
3442 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
3448 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
3454 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
3457 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
3458 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
3459 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
3460 I made some changes, though:
3461 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
3462 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
3463 that is a clear violation of policy.
3464 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
3465 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
3466 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
3467 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
3468 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
3469 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
3470 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
3471 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
3472 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
3474 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
3478 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
3484 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
3487 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
3491 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
3494 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
3495 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
3500 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
3506 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
3513 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
3516 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
3517 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
3518 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
3519 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
3520 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
3521 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
3522 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
3526 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
3532 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
3536 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
3537 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
3541 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
3547 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
3550 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
3554 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
3557 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
3558 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
3562 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
3564 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
3569 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
3573 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
3577 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
3580 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
3581 for the dependancies to be generated.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
3585 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
3588 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
3592 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
3595 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
3596 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
3597 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
3602 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
3605 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
3606 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
3610 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
3616 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
3622 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
3625 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
3627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
3629 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
3631 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
3635 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
3638 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
3639 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
3640 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
3641 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
3642 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
3643 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
3644 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
3645 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
3646 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
3647 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
3648 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
3649 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
3653 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
3656 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
3657 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
3659 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
3660 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
3661 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
3662 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
3663 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
3664 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
3666 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
3667 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
3671 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
3674 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
3676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
3678 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3680 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
3683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
3685 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3687 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
3688 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
3693 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
3696 for building debhelper.
3697 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
3701 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
3708 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3711 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3715 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3718 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3719 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3720 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3721 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3722 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3723 it's always available.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3727 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3730 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3731 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3732 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3736 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3739 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3740 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3744 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3750 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3753 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3757 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3763 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3766 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3767 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3768 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3772 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3775 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3780 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3783 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3784 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3786 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3787 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3791 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3797 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3803 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3806 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3810 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3813 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3814 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3816 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3820 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3822 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3823 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3824 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3825 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3829 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3832 things if CDPATH is set.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3836 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3842 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3845 seems to make sense for the transition.
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3849 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3852 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3857 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3860 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3861 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3865 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3868 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3872 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3875 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3876 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3877 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3878 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3882 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3888 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3891 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3892 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3893 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3894 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3895 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3896 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3897 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3898 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3899 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3900 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3905 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3908 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3909 * README: mention doc/v2
3910 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3911 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3915 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3917 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3918 be using this script RSN.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3922 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3925 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3926 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3927 more than 1 init script.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3931 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3933 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3934 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3938 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Changed perl version detection.
3941 * Changed call to find.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3945 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3948 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3950 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3955 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3957 * Really include dh_installpam.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3961 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3964 * Wrote man page for same.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3968 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3971 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3972 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3977 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3984 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3987 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3988 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3989 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3990 x bit was being set!
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3994 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3997 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3998 well. (Closes: 38900)
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
4002 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
4005 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
4006 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
4010 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
4016 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
4023 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
4029 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
4032 help from Julian Gilbey.
4033 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
4034 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
4035 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
4036 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
4037 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
4038 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
4039 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
4042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
4044 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
4046 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
4050 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
4055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
4057 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
4067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
4069 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
4071 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
4072 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
4074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
4076 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
4078 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
4079 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
4083 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
4086 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
4090 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
4094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
4096 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
4098 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
4099 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
4103 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
4107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
4109 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
4111 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
4113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
4115 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
4117 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
4118 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
4119 may be deleted. (#35845)
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
4123 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * Various man page enhancements.
4126 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
4131 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
4134 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
4135 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
4139 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
4142 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
4143 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
4144 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
4146 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
4147 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
4150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
4152 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
4154 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
4158 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * Another very minor typo fix.
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
4164 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Very minor typo fix.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
4170 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
4173 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
4174 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
4178 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
4182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
4184 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
4186 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
4187 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
4188 variables properly (#34850).
4190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
4192 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
4194 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
4198 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
4201 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
4202 (automatically generated by build process).
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
4206 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
4208 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
4210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
4212 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
4214 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
4215 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
4216 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
4218 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
4222 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
4225 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
4227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
4229 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
4231 * README: minor typo fix.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
4235 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
4238 leave it at that. :-)
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
4242 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
4246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
4248 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
4250 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
4254 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
4257 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
4258 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
4259 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
4263 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
4266 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
4268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
4270 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
4272 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
4273 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
4277 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
4280 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
4281 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
4282 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
4283 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
4285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
4287 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
4289 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
4290 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
4291 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
4292 Craig Small for spotting this.
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
4296 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
4299 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
4300 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
4302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
4304 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
4306 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
4308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
4310 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
4312 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
4313 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
4315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
4317 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
4319 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
4320 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
4321 working on the last version of debhelper.
4323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
4325 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
4327 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
4328 being made. (#23255)
4330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
4332 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
4334 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
4336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
4338 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
4340 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
4341 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
4345 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
4348 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
4349 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
4350 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
4351 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
4353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
4355 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
4357 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
4358 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
4359 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
4360 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
4361 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
4363 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
4364 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
4366 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
4371 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
4377 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
4383 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
4386 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
4387 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
4388 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
4389 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
4390 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
4391 suidregister actually supports it.
4392 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
4393 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
4395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
4397 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
4399 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
4402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
4404 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
4406 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
4407 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
4408 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
4409 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
4410 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
4411 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
4412 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
4413 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
4417 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
4419 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
4420 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
4422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
4424 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
4426 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
4427 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
4428 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
4429 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
4430 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
4434 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
4437 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
4439 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
4440 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
4441 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
4442 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
4443 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
4444 effect, either. (#30118)
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
4448 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
4452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
4454 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
4456 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
4457 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
4458 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
4462 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Spelling and typo fixes.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
4468 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
4471 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
4472 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
4473 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
4474 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
4476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
4478 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
4480 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
4481 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
4482 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
4484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
4486 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
4488 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
4492 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
4495 packages, painlessly.
4497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
4499 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
4501 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
4503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
4505 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
4507 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
4511 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
4515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
4517 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
4519 * The perl conversion is complete.
4521 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
4523 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
4524 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
4525 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
4528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
4530 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
4532 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
4533 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
4534 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
4535 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
4539 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
4541 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
4542 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
4544 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
4546 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
4547 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
4549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
4551 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
4553 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
4554 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
4555 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
4557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
4559 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
4561 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
4563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
4565 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
4567 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
4568 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
4569 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
4570 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
4571 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
4572 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
4574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
4576 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
4578 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
4579 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
4580 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
4581 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
4582 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
4584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
4586 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
4588 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
4589 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
4591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
4593 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
4595 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
4596 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
4597 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
4598 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
4599 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
4600 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
4601 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
4602 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
4603 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
4605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
4607 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
4609 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
4611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
4613 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
4615 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
4616 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
4617 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
4618 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
4621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
4623 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
4625 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
4626 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
4628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
4630 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
4632 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
4633 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
4635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
4637 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
4639 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
4640 sections of shared libraries.
4641 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
4642 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
4643 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
4644 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
4645 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
4646 things you don't want them to.
4647 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
4648 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
4650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
4652 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
4654 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
4655 shared libraries. (#26414)
4657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
4659 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
4661 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
4662 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
4663 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
4664 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
4668 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
4672 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
4674 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
4675 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
4676 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
4677 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
4678 the program to not fail. (#26214)
4680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
4682 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
4684 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
4685 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
4687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
4689 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
4691 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
4692 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
4693 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
4696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
4698 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
4700 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
4701 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
4703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
4705 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
4707 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
4708 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
4709 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
4710 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4711 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4712 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4714 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4715 remove debian/files properly.
4716 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4717 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4718 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4719 * Removed bogus menu file.
4721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4723 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4725 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4726 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4730 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4732 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4733 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4734 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4735 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4736 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4737 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4738 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4742 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4744 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4745 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4746 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4747 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4748 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4752 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4754 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4759 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4761 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4762 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4763 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4765 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4766 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4767 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4768 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4769 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4770 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4774 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4776 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4777 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4778 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4779 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4780 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4781 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4782 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4783 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4784 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4785 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4786 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4787 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4788 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4789 passed any switches.
4790 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4794 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4796 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4797 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4798 at all for a long while.
4799 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4800 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4801 large chunks in the process.
4802 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4803 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4804 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4809 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4811 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4812 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4814 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4819 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4822 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4823 that don't always have the same files in them.
4824 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4825 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4826 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4830 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4832 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4834 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4835 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4836 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4837 updating 27 man pages.
4838 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4839 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4840 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4841 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4842 programs act on. (#25247)
4844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4846 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4850 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4851 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4852 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4853 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4854 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4855 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4860 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4862 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4867 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4869 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4874 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4876 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4877 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4881 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4883 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4887 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4889 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4890 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4891 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4892 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4893 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4894 package by accident.
4895 * Is version 1.0 next?
4897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4899 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4901 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4902 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4903 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4907 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4909 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4910 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4911 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4912 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4913 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4914 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4916 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4921 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4923 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4924 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4925 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4929 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4931 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4932 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4936 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4938 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4939 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4940 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4945 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4947 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4951 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4953 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4954 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4955 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4960 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4962 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4966 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4968 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4969 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4970 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4971 past week. Thanks, guys!
4973 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4974 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4975 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4976 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4977 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4978 would do in the same situation.
4979 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4980 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4982 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4984 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4985 permissions changed.
4986 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4987 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4988 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4989 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4990 files are treated identically.
4991 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4992 * Minor man page fixes.
4993 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4994 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4995 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4999 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
5001 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
5002 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
5003 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
5004 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
5005 use -X multiple times, too.
5006 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
5007 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
5009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
5011 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
5013 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
5014 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
5015 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
5017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
5019 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
5021 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
5022 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
5024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
5026 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
5028 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
5029 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
5030 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
5031 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
5032 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
5033 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
5034 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
5035 shape if you're starting a new package.
5037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
5039 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
5041 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
5042 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
5044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
5046 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
5048 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
5049 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
5050 because of missing symlinks.
5052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
5054 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
5056 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
5058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
5060 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
5062 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
5063 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
5064 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
5065 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
5066 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
5067 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
5069 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
5070 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
5072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
5074 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5076 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
5077 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
5078 to be changed after the fact :-)
5079 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
5081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
5083 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5085 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
5086 no version string after the -V.
5088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
5090 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
5092 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
5093 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
5096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
5098 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
5100 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
5101 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
5103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
5105 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
5107 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
5108 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
5109 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
5110 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
5111 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
5112 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
5113 I always welcome corrections!
5115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
5117 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
5119 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
5121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
5123 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
5125 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
5126 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
5127 * Documented this new switch.
5129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
5131 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
5133 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
5134 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
5135 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
5136 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
5137 no packages use the old behavior.
5139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
5141 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
5143 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
5144 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
5145 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
5147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
5149 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
5151 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
5152 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
5154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
5156 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
5158 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
5160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
5162 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
5164 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
5165 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
5167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
5169 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
5171 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
5172 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
5173 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
5174 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
5176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
5178 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
5180 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
5182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
5184 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
5186 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
5187 into the source package by accident.
5189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
5191 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
5193 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
5194 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
5195 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
5196 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
5197 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
5198 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
5199 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
5202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
5204 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
5206 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
5208 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
5209 inspired to implement some of it.
5210 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
5212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
5214 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
5216 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
5217 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
5219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
5221 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
5223 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
5224 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
5225 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
5227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
5229 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
5231 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
5232 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
5233 have done.) (#17598)
5235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
5237 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
5239 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
5241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
5243 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
5245 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
5247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
5249 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
5251 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
5252 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
5254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
5256 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
5258 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
5259 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
5260 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
5262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
5264 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
5266 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
5267 argument processor in perl.
5268 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
5269 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
5270 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
5271 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
5273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
5275 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
5277 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
5278 type directories. (#16933)
5279 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
5280 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
5281 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
5282 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
5283 are supported. (#16935)
5284 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
5287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
5289 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
5291 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
5292 This has been broken since version 0.30.
5294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
5296 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
5298 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
5300 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
5301 version requirements in the shlibs file.
5302 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
5303 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
5304 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
5305 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
5307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
5309 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
5311 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
5312 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
5313 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
5315 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
5316 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
5317 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
5318 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
5319 a given package, or -i or -a.
5320 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
5321 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
5322 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
5323 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
5324 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
5325 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
5326 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
5327 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
5328 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
5330 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
5331 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
5332 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
5334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
5336 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
5338 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
5339 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
5340 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
5343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
5345 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
5347 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
5348 does not have a section.
5350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
5352 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
5354 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
5355 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
5356 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
5357 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
5359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
5361 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
5363 * Fixed typo #16215.
5365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
5367 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
5369 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
5370 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
5371 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
5372 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
5373 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
5374 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
5377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
5379 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
5381 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
5382 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
5383 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
5384 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
5387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
5389 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
5391 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
5393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
5395 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
5397 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
5399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
5401 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
5403 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
5404 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
5405 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
5406 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
5407 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
5408 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
5409 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
5411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
5413 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
5415 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
5417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
5419 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
5421 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
5422 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
5424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
5426 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
5428 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
5429 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
5430 the dh_* programs (#15497).
5431 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
5433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
5435 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
5437 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
5438 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
5440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
5442 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
5444 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
5446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
5448 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
5450 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
5451 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
5453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
5455 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
5457 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
5458 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
5460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
5462 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
5464 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
5466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
5468 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
5470 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
5471 postinst, postrm, etc.
5473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
5475 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
5477 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
5479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
5481 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
5483 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
5484 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
5485 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
5486 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
5487 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
5488 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
5490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
5492 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
5494 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
5495 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
5496 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
5498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
5500 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
5502 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
5503 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
5505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
5507 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
5509 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
5510 installing package files into.
5511 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
5514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
5516 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
5518 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
5520 * Install examples/rules* executable.
5522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
5524 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
5526 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
5528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
5530 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
5532 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
5533 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
5535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
5537 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
5539 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
5540 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
5541 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
5542 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
5543 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
5545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
5547 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
5549 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
5550 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
5551 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
5552 multiple binary packages.
5553 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
5554 should rebuild them with this version.
5555 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
5557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
5559 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
5561 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
5562 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
5564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
5566 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
5568 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
5569 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
5571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
5573 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
5575 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
5576 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
5577 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
5578 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
5579 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
5580 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
5581 debian/README.debian.
5582 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
5583 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
5584 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
5585 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
5586 in a few situations.)
5588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
5590 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
5592 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
5594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
5596 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
5598 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
5600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
5602 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
5604 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
5605 * Fixed several man pages.
5607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
5609 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
5611 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
5612 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
5613 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
5615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
5617 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
5619 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
5620 is ready for general use.
5621 * Added man pages for all commands.
5622 * Multiple binary package support.
5623 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
5624 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
5625 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
5627 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
5628 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
5629 auto-installed as parameters.
5630 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
5632 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
5635 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
5636 the package build directory it is to act on.
5637 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
5638 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
5639 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
5641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
5643 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
5645 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
5646 ready to replace debstd.
5648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400